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Commodity price shocks and financial sector fragility
Kinda, Tidiane; Mlachila, Montfort; Ouedraogo, Rasmané - 2016
shocks are associated with higher non-performing loans, bank costs and banking crises, while they reduce bank profits …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011436781
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Financial inclusion and bank competition in Sub-Saharan Africa
Mengistu, Azanaw; Perez-Saiz, Hector - 2018
). We use detailed individual-level survey data, combined with key country-level indicators of bank competition and … financial soundness, to study the effect on the adoption of several financial products (bank accounts, credit and debit cards …, and bank loans). We find that more competition tends to increase the probability of access to these financial products. On …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011978430
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Bank ownership and the effects of financial liberalization : evidence from India
Gupta, Poonam; Kochhar, Kalpana; Panth, Sanjaya - 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009486189
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Too cold, too hot, or just right? : assessing financial sector development across the globe
Barajas, Adolfo; Beck, Thorsten; Dabla-Norris, Era; … - 2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009726449
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The Accountability of Financial Sector Supervisors : Principles and Practice
Taylor, Michael - 2005
Policymakers'' uneasiness about granting independence to financial sector regulators stems to a large extent from the lack of familiarity with, and elusiveness of, the concept of accountability. This paper gives operational content to accountability and argues that it is possible to do so in a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014400617
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Regional Financial Conglomerates : A Case for Improved Supervision
Olafsson, Thordur - 2005
The paper''s central theme is that where a financial crisis emerges, regional supervisors should have systems in place to effectively respond to their country-specific crises and-in the case of foreign operations and financial conglomerates-to collaborate comprehensively with other supervisory...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014400736
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A Cross-Country Non-Parametric Analysis of Bahrain's Banking Sector
Manole, Vlad - 2005
Bahrain''s financial sector development strategy succeeded in building a leading regional banking center, which has become one of the main engines of growth and sources of employment. Although the simulations conducted in the paper suggest that the banking sector in Bahrain continues to occupy a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014400844
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Banking Efficiency and Financial Development in Sub-Saharan Africa
Kablan, Sandrine - 2010
This study assesses the determinants of banking system efficiency in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and asks what, besides the degree of efficiency, explains the low level of financial development in the region. It uses stochastic frontier analysis to measure efficiency and a generalized method of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014402717
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Estimating Default Frequencies and Macrofinancial Linkages in the Mexican Banking Sector
Souto, Marcos - 2009
The credit risk measures we develop in this paper are used to investigate macrofinancial linkages in the Mexican banking system. Domestic and external macro-financial variables are found to be closely associated with banking soundness. At the aggregate level, high external volatility and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014403084
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Too Cold, Too Hot, or Just Right? : Assessing Financial Sector Development Across the Globe
Barajas, Adolfo - 2013
This paper introduces the concept of the financial possibility frontier as a constrained optimum level of financial development to gauge the relative performance of financial systems across the globe. This frontier takes into account structural country characteristics, institutional, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014395298