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The aim of this paper is to construct a comprehensive and consistent dataset to analyze the potential risks from foreign bank lending, for both the creditor and borrower countries of Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe (CESE). We develop a picture of bank claims on 13 CESE countries by...
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period of 1998–2011. The paper finds that the level of NPLs can be attributed to both macroeconomic conditions and banks …
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The latest advancement in financial technology has posed unprecedented challenges for incumbent banks. This paper … advancement in banks. The analysis shows that the traditionally leading role of banks in advancing financial technology has … concentrated banking industry, as smaller and less tech-savvy banks struggle to survive. Cross-country evidence has suggested that …
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There has been a global push to decrease the cost of remittances since at least 2009, which has culminated with its inclusion in the Sustainable Development Goals in 2015. Despite this effort and the emergence of new business models, remittance costs have been decreasing very slowly, disproving...
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government interventions in more than 800 banks across 27 countries between 2007 and 2017. For identification, we use a … multivariate matching method. We find that intervened banks experience a significant decline in market power with respect to … matched non-intervened banks. This effect is more pronounced for larger and longer interventions and is driven by a rise in …
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We reconsider the design of welfare-optimal monetary policy when financing frictions impair the supply of bank credit, and when the objectives set for monetary policy must be simple enough to be implementable and allow for effective accountability. We show that a flexible inflation targeting...
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provides guidance on how non-Basel Committee member countries could incorporate banks' capital and liquidity standards into …
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banks in the early 2000s propelled the financial system and the economy into crisis. While these findings should not be … governing interactions between regulators and banks. Enhanced transparency of regulatory decisions as well as strenghtened …
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