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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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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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Consolidated Regulation and Supervision in the United States
Bhatia, Ashok Vir - 2011
, harmonizing arrangements for bank and thrift holding companies, and bringing into the net a few systemic nonbank financial groups …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014403220
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New Landscape, New Challenges : Structural Change and Regulation in the U.S. Financial Sector
Bhatia, Ashok Vir - 2007
Given the rapid evolution of the U.S. financial sector and attendant regulatory challenges, this paper explores ways to fine-tune U.S. oversight arrangements. It surveys the financial landscape, separating a highly regulated, multi-business, and (in terms of relative asset holdings) shrinking...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014400986
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Regulatory Capture in Banking
International Monetary Fund - 2006
Banks will want to influence the bank regulator to favor their interests, and they typically have the means to do so …. It is shown that such ""regulatory capture"" in banking does not imply ineffectual regulation; a ""captured"" regulator …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014400538
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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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U.S. Bank Behavior in the Wake of the 2007-2009 Financial Crisis
Hakura, Dalia - 2010
The paper examines the slowdown of lending by large U.S. banks over the period 2007Q3 - 2009Q2, focusing on: (i) whether capital or liquidity was the binding constraint; (ii) factors influencing banks’ decision to hold capital; and (iii) their pricing behavior. Using quarterly data for the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014402679
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Fintech and payments regulation : analytical framework
Tanai Khiaonarong; Goh, Terry - 2020
, and effective regulation. Recent developments suggest that regulatory approaches and their legal foundations need to … augment entity-based regulation with increasing focus on activities and risks as market structure changes. This paper draws on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012251408
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012103556
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The long shadow of the global financial crisis : public interventions in the financial sector
Igan, Deniz; Moussawi, Hala; Tieman, Alexander F.; … - 2019
We track direct public interventions and public holdings in 1,114 financial institutions over the period 2007-17 in 37 countries based on publicly available information. We use aggregate official data to validate this new dataset and estimate the fiscal impact of interventions, including the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012102177