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Coping with falling oil prices : the different fortunes of African banks
Gueye, Cheikh; Mbelu, Asithandile; Sy, Amadou N. R. - 2019
This paper studies the impact of declining oil prices on banks in sub-Saharan African oil-exporting countries. Results indicate that banks respond differently to an oil shock depending on their ownership: (i) domestic banks are the most adversely impacted and experience a deterioration in asset...
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Italy : Assessing Competition and Efficiency in the Banking System
International Monetary Fund - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014400137
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Banking Sector Integration and Competition in CEMAC
Vacher, Jérôme - 2007
''Afrique Centrale (CEMAC) and the level of bank competition at the regional level. Using a mix of quantitative and qualitative … excess liquidity in the region. Other data also indicate that bank competition within the CEMAC as a region is limited …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014403007
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Asymmetric Information and the Market Structure of the Banking Industry
Dell'Ariccia, Giovanni - 1998
The paper analyzes the effects of informational asymmetries on the market structure of the banking industry in a multi-period model of spatial competition. All lenders face uncertainty with regard to borrowers’ creditworthiness, but, in the process of lending, incumbent banks gather...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014399942
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Market-Based Structural Top-Down Stress Tests of the Banking System
Chan-Lau, Jorge A. - 2013
presents a market-based structural top-down stress testing methodology that relies in market-based measures of a bank …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014395258
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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 Europe). Further, stronger recoveries also tend to be associated with …
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Are More Competitive Banking Systems More Stable?
Cihák, Martin - 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/10014402240
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Democratic accountability, deficit bias, and independent fiscal agencies
Debrun, Xavier (contributor) - 2011
literature on "fiscal councils" typically makes informal parallels with the theory of central bank independence, but a very …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009424869
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Measuring fiscal decentralization : exploring the IMF’s databases
Dziobek, Claudia; Gutierrez Mangas, Carlos; Kufa, Phebby - 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009425663
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What drives interest rate spreads in Pacific Island countries? : an empirical investigation
Jamaludin, Fazurin; Kljuev, Vladimir Vladimirovič; … - 2015
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