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. …

banking system. We test for the likelihood that an extreme shock affecting a major, systemic U.K. bank would also affect …

This paper considers the extent of retail banking integration in the Communauté Economique et Monétaire d …

This paper studies why currency and monetary shock hit Indonesia's economy and banking sector so severely and the … measures that were taken to deal with the banking crisis, the lessons learned, and challenges faced in restructuring and … strengthening the banking system. The vulnerable state of the banking sector, in combination with exchange rate and interest rate …

-important-to-fail problem. It is argued that while the more radical of these proposals such as narrow utility banking do not adequately address …

This study looks at the first two years of the banking crisis that erupted in Indonesia in late 1997. It finds that the … banking sector was weak at the outset, and that governance problems intensified the crisis and seriously delayed its … in the costs of resolution. By end-1999, the critical elements to reconstruct the banking system were in place, and the …

Despite far-reaching banking sector reforms and a prolonged period of macroeconomic stability and strong economic … potential to increase cost efficiency and competition in the banking system. …