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The aim of this paper is twofold: first, to study the determinants of banks' net interest margin with a particular focus on the role of maturity transformation, using a new measure of maturity mismatch; second, to analyse the implications for banks from the relaxation of a binding prudential...
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essential ingredients of models of bank competition …
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can predict a negative relationship between concentration and bank loan-to-asset ratios, and a nonmonotonic relationship … between bank concentration and profitability. We explore these predictions empirically using a cross-sectional sample of about …, loan-to-asset ratios are negatively and significantly related to concentration, and bank profits are positively and …
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This paper assesses proposals to redefine the scope of activities of systemically important financial institutions. Alongside reform of prudential regulation and oversight, these have been offered as solutions to the too-important-to-fail problem. It is argued that while the more radical of...
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bank tax, and the U.S. administration has revived its own proposal for such a charge. This paper considers the structure … for taxing bank borrowing, perhaps as an adjunct to minimum capital requirements, at marginal rates that rise quite … higher than those of the bank taxes so far adopted or proposed …
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orientation, pressures on funding models and entity structures could affect the efficiency of capital flows through the bank …
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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...
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