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Deposit Insurance Database
Demirgüç-Kunt, Asli - 2017
This paper provides a comprehensive, global database of deposit insurance arrangements as of 2013. The authors extend their earlier dataset by including recent adopters of deposit insurance and information on the use of government guarantees on banks' assets and liabilities, including during the...
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How Does Deposit Insurance Affect Bank Risk? Evidence from the Recent Crisis
Anginer, Deniz - 2017
Deposit insurance is widely offered in a number of countries as part of a financial system safety net to promote stability. An unintended consequence of deposit insurance is the reduction in the incentive of depositors to monitor banks, which leads to excessive risk-taking. This paper examines...
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Interest Rate Caps Around the World : Still Popular, But a Blunt Instrument
Maimbo, Samuel Munzele - 2017
countries around the world currently use some form of interest rate caps on loans -- all with varying degrees of effects …
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Access to Financial Services and the Financial Inclusion Agenda Around the World : A Cross-Country Analysis with a New Data Set
Ardic, Oya Pinar - 2017
at the core of policymakers? agendas. The Consultative Group to Assist the Poor and the World Bank Group, in response … inform the policy debate. Using this database, this paper (i) counts the number of unbanked adults around the world at 56 …) discusses the state of financial inclusion mandates around the world …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012976198
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Measuring Financial Access Around the World
Kendall, Jake - 2017
estimation of the number of bank accounts in the world (6.2 billion) as well as the number of banked and unbanked individuals. In …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012976612
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Global Recessions
Kose, M. Ayhan - 2020
The world economy has experienced four global recessions over the past seven decades: in 1975, 1982, 1991, and 2009 … internationally, with severe economic and financial disruptions in many countries around the world. The 2009 global recession, set off …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012840241
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Global Corporate Debt During Crises : Implications of Switching Borrowing Across Markets
Cortina Lorente, Juan Jose - 2020
This paper studies how crises prompted firms to switch borrowing across markets, impacting the amount borrowed, maturity, and currency denomination at the firm and aggregate levels. Using data on worldwide debt issuance from advanced and emerging economies, the paper shows that firms shifted...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012842157
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Debt and Financial Crises
Koh, Wee Chian - 2020
Emerging market and developing economies have experienced recurrent episodes of rapid debt accumulation over the past fifty years. This paper examines the consequences of debt accumulation using a three-pronged approach: an event study of debt accumulation episodes in 100 emerging market and...
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Before and after the Global Financial Crisis : Evaluating the Caribbean's Synchronization with Global Engines of Growth
Kouame, Auguste Tano - 2017
In spite of the United States' recovery, most Caribbean nations are still struggling in the aftermath of the 2007?08 global financial crisis. This paper examines this slow growth recovery through the analysis of how the Caribbean's growth relates to that of key drivers of the global economy. The...
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The Impact of the Global Financial Crisis on Firms'Capital Structure
Demirgüç-Kunt, Asli - 2017
Using a data set covering about 277,000 firms across 79 countries over the period 2004-11, this paper examines the evolution of firms' capital structure during the global financial crisis and its aftermath in 2010-11. The study finds that firm leverage and debt maturity declined in advanced...
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