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The global financial crisis has focused much attention on procyclicality, particularly in the context of a macroprudential framework. This paper reviews a set of prudential measures that can be adopted by national authorities to deal with procyclicality and discusses issues in designing and...
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banking sector regulation and supervision, particularly in the light of the new approach embodied in Basel III. Against the … risk exposure. It allows optimizing the prudential regulation ensuring that provisioning and capital requirements are … existence of a PCR will be a key factor to enhance the supervision and regulation of the financial system. Furthermore, the …
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Most explanations of the crisis of 2007-2009 emphasize the role of the preceding boom in real estate and asset markets in a variety of advanced countries. As a result, an idea that is gaining support among various groups is how to make Basel II or any regulatory regime less pro-cyclical. This...
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The global financial crisis has given greater credence to the idea that active state involvement in the financial sector can be helpful for stability and development. There is now evidence that, for example, lending by state-owned banks has helped in mitigating the impact of the crisis on...
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The last several years before the global downturn of 2008-2009 saw rapid credit growth in Poland. The credit-to-gross domestic product ratio rose from about 25 percent in 2004 to close to 50 percent in 2009. Such an expansion itself might potentially be a source of risks to financial stability,...
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This paper examines the factors that determine banking flows from advanced economies to emerging markets. In addition to the usual determinants of capital flows in terms of global push and local pull factors, it examines the role of bilateral factors, such as growth differentials and economic...
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This paper investigates how government interventions into banking systems such as blanket guarantees, liquidity support, recapitalizations, and nationalizations affect banking competition. This debate is important because the pricing of banking products has implications for borrower and...
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This paper presents the latest update of the World Bank Bank Regulation and Supervision Survey, and explores two … questions. First, were there significant differences in regulation and supervision between crisis and non-crisis countries …? Second, what aspects of regulation and supervision changed significantly during the crisis period? The paper finds …
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International consultants on bank regulation, and supervision for developing countries, often base their advice on how … tended to be shaped by bias rather than facts. To better inform advice about bank regulation, and supervision, and to lower … regulation, and supervision of banks in a hundred and seven countries. The data, based on surveys sent to national bank …
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This paper summarizes the latest update of the World Bank Bank Regulation and Supervision Survey. The paper explores …
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