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Banks As Coordinators of Economic Growth
Ueda, Kenichi - 2006
This paper formally identifies an important role of banks: Banks competitively internalize production externalities and facilitate economic growth. I formulate a canonical growth model with externalities as a game among consumers, firms, and banks. Banks compete for deposits to seek monopoly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014399670
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Market Phoenixes and Banking Ducks Are Recoveries Faster in Market-Based Financial Systems?
Allard, Julien - 2011
Recoveries vary considerably across countries: our paper compares recoveries in bank-based and market-based economies and finds that market-based economies experience significantly and durably stronger rebounds than the bank-based ones (in particular the more bank-based economies of continental...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014398329
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Barriers to trade in financial and insurance services : evidence from the United Kingdom
Podpiera, Jiří - 2021
exports of all five broad categories of the U.K.'s financial and insurance services. No trade barriers are found for the bulk … suggests that post-Brexit disruptions of the U.K.'s export of financial and insurance services may be minor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012796259
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Insurance and Issues in Financial Soundness
Das, Udaibir S. - 2003
This paper explores insurance as a source of financial system vulnerability. It provides a brief overview of the … insurance industry and reviews the risks it faces, as well as several recent failures of insurance companies that had systemic … implications. Assimilation of banking-type activities by life insurers appears to be the key systemic vulnerability. Building on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014403822
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Inflation Targeting Under Asymmetric Preferences
Ruge-Murcia, Francisco Javier - 2001
''s preference parameters for Canada, Sweden, and the United Kingdom are statistically different from the one implied by the commonly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014400680
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Alternative Methods of Estimating Potential Output and the Output Gap : An Application to Sweden
Saxena, Sweta Chaman - 2000
methods to the case of Sweden, showing the range of estimates …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014399814
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Financial inclusion : what have we learned so far? : what do we have to learn?
Barajas, Adolfo; Beck, Thorsten; Belhaj, Mohamed; Ben … - 2020
, such as encouraging banking competition or channeling government payments through bank accounts, play an important role …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012300650
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SME financial inclusion for sustained growth in the Middle East and Central Asia
Ghassibe, Mishel; Appendino, Maximiliano; Elsadek … - 2019
This paper offers empirical evidence that greater financial inclusion of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) can promote higher economic growth and employment, especially in the Middle East and Central Asia regions. First, we show that countries with higher SME financial inclusion exhibit more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012103763
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Bank ownership and the effects of financial liberalization : evidence from India
Gupta, Poonam; Kochhar, Kalpana; Panth, Sanjaya - 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009486189
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Too cold, too hot, or just right? : assessing financial sector development across the globe
Barajas, Adolfo; Beck, Thorsten; Dabla-Norris, Era; … - 2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009726449