maturity, the central bank returns the reserves. There exist some specific combinations of date- and maturity-specific reserve …The paper looks at the relationship between reserve requirements and the choice of the maturity structure of external … debt in a general equilibrium setup, by incorporating the role of international lenders. A date- and maturity …

1980s. This paper analyzes the extent to which (i) oil exporters use bank deposits to invest these surpluses, and (ii …) banks are lending on these funds to emerging market economies. Bank recycling of petro dollars to emerging market economies … is found to be almost as important as in the 1970s and 1980s, even though during the current boom, petro dollar bank …

This paper analyzes the evolution of bank funding structures in the run up to the global financial crisis and studies … the implications for financial stability, exploiting a bank-level dataset that covers about 11,000 banks in the U.S. and …-crisis period were more likely to fail afterward. The likelihood of bank failure also increases with bank risk-taking. In the cross …

41 SSA countries to study the determinants of bank profitability. We find that apart from credit risk, higher returns on …Bank profits are high in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) compared to other regions. This paper uses a sample of 389 banks in … assets are associated with larger bank size, activity diversification, and private ownership. Bank returns are affected by …

This paper analyzes the relationship between oil price shocks and bank profitability. Using data on 145 banks in 11 oil …-exporting MENA countries for 1994-2008, we test hypotheses of direct and indirect effects of oil price shocks on bank profitability …. Our results indicate that oil price shocks have indirect effect on bank profitability, channeled through country …

bank net interest margins. Combined with resilient asset quality, wider net interest margins supported record profits for …