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The Development Impact of Financial Regulation : Evidence from Ethiopia and Antebellum USA

Limodio, Nicola - 2016

depositor repayment in bad states. In so doing, financial regulation stimulates bank profits if subsequent deposit growth … empirical tests are presented: 1) a regulation change by the National Bank of Ethiopia in 2011; 2) the introduction of bank … taxes in Antebellum USA (1800-1861). Analyzing bank balance sheets and long-term branch installation, the regulation effects …

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Financial Sector's Cybersecurity : Regulations and Supervision

World Bank Group (contributor) - World Bank Group - 2018

The Financial Sector's Cybersecurity: Regulation and Supervision identifies prevalent concepts and practices and …

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Financial Cooperatives : Issues in Regulation, Supervision, and Institutional Strengthening

Cuevas, Carlos E. - 2018

Financial Cooperatives (FCs) are important providers of financial services to poor and middle-income people, and significant drivers of financial inclusion. Aside from their strong presence and relevance in developed economies, especially Europe and North America, the significance of financial...

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Interest rate repression : a new database

Calice, Pietro; Kalan, Federico Diaz; Masetti, Oliver - 2020

Financial repression resurfaced in the wake of the global financial crisis and might become a common feature in the post Covid-19 world. To advance knowledge and inform policy advice, this paper presents a new database on interest rate controls, a popular form of financial repression, based on a...

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Taking stock of the financial sector policy response to COVID-19 around the world

Feyen, Erik; Gispert, Tatiana Alonso; Kliatskova, Tatsiana - 2020

This paper introduces a new global database and a policy classification framework that records the financial sector policy response to the COVID-19 pandemic across 154 jurisdictions. It documents that authorities around the world have taken a diverse array of measures to mitigate financial...

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How Liberal Is Nepal's Liberal Grade Promotion Policy?

Sharma, Dhiraj - 2016

This paper estimates the magnitude of liberal grade promotion in public schools in Nepal by comparing the pass rate in internally administered exams with the pass rate in the district-exam whose scores determine grade transition. The pass rate in the year-end exam is three and a half times as...

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Distributed Ledger Technology and Blockchain

Natarajan, Harish - 2017

The financial sector is currently undergoing a major transformation, brought about by the rapid development and spread of new technologies. The confluence of 'finance' and 'technology' is often referred to as 'Fintech', typically describing companies or innovations that employ new technologies...

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Distributed Ledger Technology and Secured Transactions : Note 2. Regulatory Implications of Integrating Digital Assets and Distributed Ledgers in Credit Ecosystems

World Bank Group - 2020

This guidance note focuses on the regulatory implications that the deployment of distributed ledger technology (DLT) entails for secured transactions and collateral registry (STCR) frameworks. In particular, it examines the regulatory regimes applicable to three DLT-STCR outputs: (i) the use of...

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Cryptocurrencies and blockchain

Weltbank / Europe and Central Asia Region / Office of … - 2018

With growth in Europe and Central Asia likely at its peak, this report addresses two questions. Howwell is the region prepared for an expected slowdown? How well has the economic upswing beenused to adjust to the digital revolution? The report specifically focuses on cryptocurrency andblockchain...

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Pension reform in Southeastern Europe : linking to labor and financial market reform

Holzmann, Robert (contributor); … - 2009

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