Although keeping bank supervision independent from macroprudential supervision may ensure more checks and balances …, placing bank supervision in the central bank could exploit synergies with macroprudential supervision. This paper studies … as financial stability policy, typically entrusted to the central bank, can improve financial stability. Specifically …

This paper examines how corporate governance and executive compensation affected bank capitalization strategies for an … to lower bank capitalization. Boards of intermediate size, separation of the chief executive officer and chairman roles …, and an absence of anti-takeover provisions, in particular, lead to low bank capitalization. However, executive options and …

between bank lending specialization and bank performance and stability in an international sample. Theory suggests that banks … exposures, while not leading to higher returns. The paper also documents important time, cross-bank, and cross-county variation …

mechanism by which government interventions contribute to banks' risk-shifting behavior as reported in recent studies on bank … level runs via competition. (iv) Government interventions disparately affect bank customers' welfare. While liquidity …

This paper presents the latest update of the World Bank Bank Regulation and Supervision Survey, and explores two … on non-bank activities, (c) were less strict in the regulatory treatment of bad loans and loan losses, and (d) had weaker … schemes became more generous, and some reforms were introduced in the area of bank governance and bank resolution …

of bank competition on firms' access to finance. They find that low competition, as measured by high values of the Lerner … index, diminishes firms' access to finance, while commonly-used bank concentration measures are not robust predictors of … information, can mitigate the damaging impact of low competition. But other characteristics, such as high government bank …

of private credit/gross domestic product; the positive effect of bank credit is especially pronounced in industries that …