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Taming financial development to reduce crises
Ben Naceur, Samy; Candelon, Bertrand; Lajaunie, Quentin - 2019
This paper assesses whether and how financial development triggers the occurrence of banking crises. It builds on a database that includes financial development as well as financial access, depth and efficiency for almost 100 countries. Through estimation of a dynamic logit panel model, it...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012021789
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Macroprudential Regulation Under Repo Funding
Valderrama, Laura - 2010
The use of collateral has become one of the most widespread risk mitigation techniques. While it brings stabilizing effects to the individual lender we argue that it may exacerbate systemic risk through margin call activation. We show how a liquidity shock to the cash lender may propagate as a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014397334
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South Africa : the financial sector-sovereign nexus
Hesse, Heiko; Miyajima, Ken - 2022
Globally, financial institutions have increased their holdings of domestic sovereign debt, tightening the linkage between the health of the financial system and the level of sovereign debt, or the "financial sector-sovereign nexus," during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. In South Africa, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013170007
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Quality of Financial Sector Regulation and Supervision Around the World
Cihák, Martin - 2008
The paper analyzes the quality of financial sector regulation and supervision around the globe. Unlike studies that … collect and analyze data on regulation and supervision ""on the books,"" this study also analyzes available information on … supervisory implementation, making use of data from IMF-World Bank assessments of compliance with international standards and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014401329
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Bank lobbying : regulatory capture and beyond
Igan, Deniz; Lambert, Thomas - 2019
In this paper, we discuss whether and how bank lobbying can lead to regulatory capture and have real consequences through an overview of the motivations behind bank lobbying and of recent empirical evidence on the subject. Overall, the findings are consistent with regulatory capture, which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012103556
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Back to the future : the nature of regulatory capital requirements
Chami, Ralph; Cosimano, Thomas F.; Kopp, E.; Rochon, Céline - 2017
This paper compares the current regulatory capital requirements under the Dodd-Frank Act (DFA) and the 10-percent leverage ratio, as proposed by the U.S. Treasury and the U.S. House of Representatives' Financial CHOICE Act (FCA). We find that the majority of U.S. banks would not qualify for an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011799690
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Financial Sector Reform and Banking Crises in the Baltic Countries
International Monetary Fund - 1996
Financial sector reform in the Baltic countries is reviewed in light of the banking crises that emerged during the reform period. It is argued that the crises had their roots in the structural deficiencies specific to planned economies and the financial environment that developed before and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014398351
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Post-crisis changes in global bank business models : a new taxonomy
Caparusso, John; Chen, Yingyuan; Dattels, Peter; Goel, Rohit - 2019
The Global Financial Crisis unleashed changes in the operating and regulatory environments for large international banks. This paper proposes a novel taxonomy to identify and track business model evolution for the 30 Global Systemically Important Banks (G-SIBs). Drawing from banks' reporting, it...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012155182
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Systemic Risk and Optimal Regulatory Architecture
Espinosa-Vega, Marco - 2011
rethinking prudential oversight and the regulatory architecture. Current financial reform legislation worldwide reflects this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014398488
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Risks and vulnerabilities in the U.S. bond mutual fund industry
Bouveret, Antoine; Yu, Jie - 2021
This paper assesses liquidity risk for the United States (U.S.) bond mutual funds industry and performs a range of analyses to identify which fund categories are more vulnerable to distress than others, and how sales from funds can impact financial stability. We develop a new measure to identify...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012605013