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Supervisory incentives in a banking union
Carletti, Elena; Dell'Ariccia, Giovanni; Marquez, Robert - 2016
We explore the behavior of supervisors when a centralized agency has full power over all decisions regarding banks, but relies on local supervisors to collect the information necessary to act. This institutional design entails a principal-agent problem between the central and local supervisors...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011715377
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Introducing Islamic Banks Into Coventional Banking Systems
Sole, Juan - 2007
Over the last decade, Islamic banking has experienced global growth rates of 10-15 percent per annum, and has been moving into an increasing number of conventional financial systems at such a rapid pace that Islamic financial institutions are present today in over 51 countries. Despite this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014400436
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Financial System Standards and Financial Stability : The Case of Basel Core Principles
Marston, David - 2001
The relationship between the observance of financial system standards and financial stability is complex owing to the multitude of macroeconomic and structural factors affecting stability. Therefore, assessments of standards in terms of technical criteria for compliance needs to be reinforced...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014400104
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Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia Banking Soundness and Recent Lessons
International Monetary Fund - 2000
After several years of transition, major weaknesses in the banking and enterprise sectors remain the root cause of low growth. A large share of nonperforming assets in the portfolio of large banks, stemming from losses in the enterprise sector, has been a key impediment to financial sector...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014403807
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Market-Based Structural Top-Down Stress Tests of the Banking System
Chan-Lau, Jorge A. - 2013
Despite increased need for top-down stress tests of financial institutions, performing them is challenging owing to the absence of granular information on banks’ trading and loan portfolios. To deal with these data shortcomings, this paper presents a market-based structural top-down stress...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014395258
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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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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 degree of competition falls within the range of estimates for a set of comparator countries. Greater contestability …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014400137
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Are More Competitive Banking Systems More Stable?
Cihák, Martin - 2006
for competition in 38 countries during 1980-2003, we present evidence that more competitive banking systems are less prone …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014402240
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Democratic accountability, deficit bias, and independent fiscal agencies
Debrun, Xavier (contributor) - 2011
Despite growing interest among policymakers, there is no theory of independent fiscal institutions. The emerging literature on "fiscal councils" typically makes informal parallels with the theory of central bank independence, but a very simple formal example shows that such a shortcut is flawed....
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