a national or "domestic" context. Under those circumstances it is therefore fortunate that, due to recent World Bank … the new data collected by the World Bank on the post-crisis regulation and supervision of SIBs by 135 countries around the …

2007-2009. The fear is that if a big bank gets into trouble, its problems will infect other financial institutions and … there are huge complexities at almost every level. What is “big?” How big is too big? What is a “bank?” What kinds of risk …-taking are appropriate for a bank – and why? What do we know about the costs and benefits of different strategies? This paper …

supervisory practices, and there is a roughly equal division between those countries that rely on the central bank as the chief … bank or indirectly through a subsidiary of a bank, rather than through a holding company structure. The notable exceptions … illustrating a way in which empirical examinations of bank performance might be enriched by taking into account differences in …

In this paper and the associated online database, we provide new data and measures of bank regulatory and supervisory … questions, including information on permissible bank activities, capital requirements, the powers of official supervisory … performance of banking systems. Since the underlying surveys are large and complex, we construct summary indices of key bank …

discipline on bank risk-taking and enhances competition so as to reduce the regulatory burden and enhance the efficiency and …

devoted to systematically and comprehensively assess the degree to which WTO Members discriminate against foreign bank. This … available on their current regulatory regime for banking (based on the responses to a World Bank survey as discussed in Barth …

“Too big to fail” traditionally refers to a bank that is perceived to generate unacceptable risk to the banking system … and indirectly to the economy as a whole if it were to default and unable to fulfill its obligations. Such a bank … of contagion if a bank fails. The main objectives in this paper are to identify the different dimensions of “too big to …