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Cost and Effectiveness of Banking Sector Restructuring in Transition Economies
Zoli, Edda - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2001
The paper analyses the cost and effectiveness of bank restructuring policies in 11 transition countries during 1991 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005248153
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Did the Basel Accord Cause a Credit Slowdown in Latin America?
Cosimano, Thomas F.; Chami, Ralph; Barajas, Adolfo - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2005
credit growth experienced by these countries. We find that, on average, both bank capitalization and lending activities in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005248279
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Financial Sector Evolution in the Central European Economies; Challenges in Supporting Macroeconomic Stability and Sustainable Growth
Wagner, Nancy L.; Iakova, Dora M. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2001
This paper takes stock of the current state of development of the financial systems in five Central European transition economies (the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, the Slovak Republic, and Slovenia) that are also leading EU accession candidates. It presents both a progress report and an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005248292
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Dynamic Depositor Discipline in U.S. Banks
McDill, Kathleen; Maechler, Andrea M. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2003
discipline: a weak bank may not necessarily be able to stop a deposit drain by raising its uninsured deposit interest rates. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005248320
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Cooperative Banks in Europe; Policy Issues
Fonteyne, Wim - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2007
This paper explains the continuing success of European cooperative banks through evolving comparative advantages. It points out that a cooperative is built around an intergenerational endowment without final owners, which creates particular governance challenges. Risks include the use of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005264159
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Capital Regulation and Tail Risk
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2011
pre-crisis bank behavior, and suggest implications for the optimal design of capital regulation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009293759
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The Taxation and Regulation of Banks
Keen, Michael - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2011
bank tax, and the U.S. administration has revived its own proposal for such a charge. This paper considers the structure … for taxing bank borrowing, perhaps as an adjunct to minimum capital requirements, at marginal rates that rise quite … higher than those of the bank taxes so far adopted or proposed. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009293766
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Making Banks Safer; Can Volcker and Vickers Do it?
Chow, Julian T. S.; Surti, Jay - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2011
This paper assesses proposals to redefine the scope of activities of systemically important financial institutions. Alongside reform of prudential regulation and oversight, these have been offered as solutions to the too-important-to-fail problem. It is argued that while the more radical of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009369435
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What Caused the Global Financial Crisis; Evidenceon the Drivers of Financial Imbalances 1999: 2007
Merrouche, Ouarda; Nier, Erlend - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2010
This paper investigates empirically the drivers of financial imbalances ahead of the global financial crisis. Three factors may have contributed to the build-up of financial imbalances: (i) rising global imbalances (capital flows), (ii) monetary policy that might have been too loose, (iii)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008727817
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The Case for a European Banking Charter
Cihák, Martin; Decressin, Jörg - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2007
Most financial institutions in the European Union (EU) are still based in one country, but a number of large financial institutions (LCFI) have systemic cross-border exposures. The paper explains how, despite much progress, nationally-segmented supervisory frameworks and national accountability...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005825634