stand-alone agencies, though, a majority of bank supervisors are part of a central bank. The survey asked respondents about … accountability. Most agencies reported having operational independence. Bank supervisors were unique in viewing financial stabili …

explaining China's and India's growth. Specific financial sector policies are shown to map well the size and changes in the … guidance in bank lending, have implied large transfers from households to firms that have kept capital …

India's financial sector has faced many challenges in recent decades, with a large, negative, and persistent credit to … and analyze the link between bank balance sheets, credit growth, and long-term growth using bank-level panel regressions …

resulting in an acceleration of bank lending. In particular, regulatory reforms pertaining to loan classification and …

Mercosur? The objective of this paper is to answer this question by analyzing changes in bank behavior after crises in the … literature-to post-crisis bank behavior. Using a panel dataset of commercial banks during the period 1990-2006, we analyze the … impact of crises on four sets of financial indicators of bank behavior-profitability, maturity preference …

of the new bank taxes—in terms of their tax base, rate, duration, and burden. The paper discusses several trade-offs in … the design of bank taxes and argues that an alternative or complementary policy response to temporarily high bank profits … is to lock them in as usable bank capital, for example through an increase in countercyclical capital buffer rates …