This paper tackles state participation in the Russian financial sector. We take the case of the banking industry to … presence in the national banking market. The approach for the assessment of the extent of state participation is based on the … analysis of the peculiarity of the Russian banking industry due to the high extent and institutional specificity of government …

) on bank capital, risk, and performance. We find that high risk weighted asset ratios tend to attract supervisory …

This study models the impact of new capital regulations proposed under Basel III on bank profitability by constructing …-percentage increase in the capital ratio can be recovered by increasing lending spreads. The results indicate that in the case of … scheduled commercial banks, one-percentage point increase in capital ratio can be recovered by increasing the bank lending …

This study models the impact of new capital regulations proposed under Basel III on bank profitability by constructing …-percentage increase in the capital ratio can be recovered by increasing lending spreads. The results indicate that in the case of … scheduled commercial banks, one-percentage point increase in capital ratio can be recovered by increasing the bank lending …

domestic per capita, that is, three measures which proxy banking activity and another three proxies for stock market … development. The empirical results generally indicate an abrupt asymmetric co-integration relationship between banking activity … growth, on the other hand. Moreover, causality analysis generally reveals that while banking activity tends to granger causes …

banks, other authors, among whom Ross Levine and his co-authors from the World Bank, question heavily the present banking … future of banking regulatory design: should the regulatory intervention be the most important corporate control mechanism in … banking or should regulators focus on introducing incentives for appropriate market behaviour? …

The basics of full reserve (FR) banking are set out below, followed by thirty eight flawed arguments against, and four …

rules exclude from regulatory capital calculations, this to safeguard the safety and soundness of the banking system. For a … regulatory capital, if regulation would accept the recognition of fair value gains on debt. The premiums paid are particularly … high for the most loss absorbing capital securities. More importantly, the premiums increase with leverage and in times of …

We assess whether during the recent financial crisis banking systems in countries with more stringent prudential … banking regulation have proved more stable. We find indicators of regulatory strength to be relatively well correlated with … value destruction in the banking sector or by the fiscal cost of financial sector rescue. …