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Do Financial Sector Reforms Lead to Financial Development? Evidence From a New Dataset

Tressel, Thierry; Detragiache, Enrica - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2008

resulted in deeper credit markets. To measure banking sectorreforms we use a new index that tracks policy changes in five … significantly influencethe effect of banking reforms on financial development. …

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Financial Contagion Through Bank Deleveraging; Stylized Facts and Simulations Applied to the Financial Crisis

Tressel, Thierry - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2010

paper first presents stylized facts of international banking activities during the crisis. It then describes a simple model … liabilities of banks, a global deleveraging of international banking activities can occur. Simple simulations are presented to …€™ banking systems during the financial crisis to calibrate the shock. The outcome of the simulations is compared with the …

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Finance in Lower Income Countries; An Empirical Exploration

Gupta, Poonam; Tressel, Thierry; Detragiache, Enrica - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2005

This paper considers how a comprehensive set of factors relates to financial sector performance in low-income countries (LICs). It finds that corruption and inflation are associated with a shallower and less efficient financial system, while legal origin and characteristics of the supervisory...

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Bankingon the Principles; Compliance with Basel Core Principles and Bank Soundness

Detragiache, Enrica; Tressel, Thierry; Demirgüç-Kunt, Asli - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2006

This paper studies whether compliance with the Basel Core Principles for Effective Banking Supervision (BCPs) improves … upgrade banking regulation and supervision should consider giving priority to information provision over other elements of the …

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A New Database of Financial Reforms

Detragiache, Enrica; Abiad, Abdul; Tressel, Thierry - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2008

This paper introduces a new database of financial reforms, covering 91 economies over 1973–2005. It describes the content of the database, the information sources utilized, and the coding rules used to create an index of financial reform. It also compares the database with other measures of...

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