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Toward an Effective Supervision of Partially Dollarized Banking Systems.
Garcia Pascual, Antonio - 2006
Intro -- Contents -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. SUPERVISORY PRACTICES -- III. TOWARDS GOOD PRACTICES -- COUNTRY PRACTICES: SURVEY RESULTS -- CURRENCY-INDUCED CREDIT RISK IN SELECTED BANKING SYSTEMS -- References.
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Development of the Commercial Banking System in Afghanistan
Charap, Joshua - 2009
Lending practices of commercial banks in Afghanistan were analyzed using CAMEL ratings. Statistically significant correlations were found: Banks with worse ratings (a) had more lending to domestic clients and (b) paid less tax. There was no statistically significant relationship between profits...
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Post-Crisis Bank Behavior
Fund, International Monetary - 2010
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 …
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Modernizing Bank Regulation in Support of Financial Deepening
Wezel, Torsten - 2009
resulting in an acceleration of bank lending. In particular, regulatory reforms pertaining to loan classification and …
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Crisis Management and Resolution for a European Banking System
Giustiniani, Alessandro - 2010
This paper proposes an integrated crisis management and resolution framework for the EU's single banking market. It comprises a European Resolution Authority (ERA), armed with the mandate and the tools to deal cost-effectively with failing systemic cross-border banks, and is designed to address...
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Assessing Bank Competition within the East African Community
Sanya, Sarah; Gaertner, Matthew - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2012
This paper is an empirical analysis of competitiveness in the banking system of four out of the five East African Community (EAC) countries2. The results show that the degree of competition is low due to a combination of structural and socio-economic factors. By way of preview, the analysis...
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Italy; Assessing Competition and Efficiency in the Banking System
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2007
The paper assesses the degree of banking competition and efficiency in Italy?over time as well as compared to that in other countries, such as France, Germany, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The paper finds competition in the Italian banking sector has intensified in loan and...
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Can Markets Compute Equilibria?.
Monroe, Hunter K. - 2009
Recent turmoil in financial and commodities markets has renewed questions regarding how well markets discover equilibrium prices, particularly when those markets are highly complex. A relatively new critique questions whether markets can realistically find equilibrium prices if computers cannot....
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Structural Reforms in the Euro Area : Economic Impact and Role of Synchronization Across Markets and Countries
Schule, Werner - 2006
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Cooperative Banks and Financial Stability
Cihák, Martin - 2007
Cooperative banks are an important, and growing, part of many financial systems. This paper empirically analyzes the role of cooperative banks in financial stability. Contrary to some suggestions in the literature, we find that cooperative banks are more stable than commercial banks. This...
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