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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014409157
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Regulatory Capture in Banking
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2006
Banks will want to influence the bank regulator to favor their interests, and they typically have the means to do so …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005264136
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012677865
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012677530
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Banking in Sub-Saharan Africa; What Went Wrong?
Gall, Françoise Le; Daumont, Roland; Leroux, François - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2004
The purpose of this paper is to study the origins of banking crises in sub-Saharan Africa, drawing upon the experience of ten countries during the period 1985-95. It examines, in particular, which factors were the most important sources of these crises. The conclusions underscore that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005769085
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A New Database of Financial Reforms
Detragiache, Enrica; Abiad, Abdul; Tressel, Thierry - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2008
This paper introduces a new database of financial reforms, covering 91 economies over 1973–2005. It describes the content of the database, the information sources utilized, and the coding rules used to create an index of financial reform. It also compares the database with other measures of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005604989
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Fat Tails and their (Un)Happy Endings; Correlation Bias and its Implications for Systemic Risk and Prudential Regulation
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2011
The correlation bias refers to the fact that claim subordination in the capital structure of the firm influences claim holders’ preferred degree of asset correlation in portfolios held by the firm. Using the copula capital structure model, it is shown that the correlation bias shifts...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009019569
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The Bright and the Dark Side of Cross-Border Banking Linkages
Muñoz, Sònia; Scuzzarella, Ryan; Cihák, Martin - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2011
When a country's banking system becomes more linked to the global banking network, does that system get more or less prone to a banking crisis? Using model simulations and econometric estimates based on a world-wide dataset, we find an M-shaped relationship between financial stability of a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009203546
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Are More Competitive Banking Systems More Stable?
Cihák, Martin; Wolfe, Simon; Schaeck, Klaus - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2006
This paper provides the first empirical analysis of the cross-country relationship between a direct measure of competitive conduct of financial institutions and banking system fragility. Using the Panzar and Rosse H-Statistic as a measure for competition in 38 countries during 1980-2003, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005825680
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Does Regulatory Governance Matter for Financial System Stability? An Empirical Analysis
Das, Udaibir S.; Quintyn, Marc; Chenard, Kina - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2004
This paper provides empirical evidence that the quality of regulatory governance-governance practices adopted by financial system regulators and supervisors-matters for financial system soundness. The paper constructs indices of financial system soundness and regulatory governance, based on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005825836