measurement of bank efficiency, competition, and liquidity creation a critical issue for both policy makers and bank managers … stability, examining the cases of fourteen Asia Pacific countries between 2003 and 2010, and goes on to discuss whether bank … insight for researchers, policy makers and bank managers with an interest in financial rationalization, restructuring and …

This paper presents new and official survey information on bank regulations in 142 countries and makes comparisons with … two earlier surveys. The data do not suggest that countries have primarily reformed their bank regulations for the better … agencies, but existing evidence suggests that these reforms will not improve bank stability or efficiency. While some countries …

This paper presents new and official survey information on bank regulations in 142 countries and makes comparisons with … two earlier surveys. The data do not suggest that countries have primarily reformed their bank regulations for the better … agencies, but existing evidence suggests that these reforms will not improve bank stability or efficiency. While some countries …

The recent global financial crisis has spurred renewed interest in identifying those reforms in bank regulation that … would work best to promote bank development, performance and stability. Building upon three recent world-wide surveys on … bank regulation (Barth et al., 2004, 2006, and 2008), we attempt to contribute to this assessment by examining whether bank …