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In the aftermath of the global financial crisis, interest in systemic risk has surged among academics and policy makers. The mitigation of systemic risk is now widely accepted as the fundamental underlying concept for the design of the post-crisis regulatory agenda. Effective mitigation requires...
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The standard macro(prudential) models focus on externalities and treat all prudential instruments as alternative, but equivalent, forms of Pigouvian taxes. This paper explicitly models individual banks' risk choices and shows that different prudential instruments affect banks' risk-taking...
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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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Confidence in combining inflation-targeting-cum-flexible-exchange-rate regimes with isolated microprudential regulation as a means to guarantee both macroeconomic and financial stability has been shattered by the scale and synchronization of asset price booms and busts that preceded the current...
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Using a new, large data set on quarterly reserve requirements for the period 1970-2011, this paper provides new evidence on the use of reserve requirements as a countercyclical macroprudential tool in developing countries. The appeal of reserve requirements lies in the pro-cyclical behavior of...
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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 …
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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 …
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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 … and summarizes the evolution in bank capital regulations, capitalization of banks, market discipline, and supervisory … crisis. Bank supervision became stricter and more complex compared with the pre?global financial crisis period. However …
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significant, especially if increased market volatility accompanies the unwinding of unprecedented central bank interventions …
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