competition/performance and financia1 sector openness (meaning foreign bank access to domestic markets), and between growth 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 …

This paper examines common regulation as cause of interbank contagion. Studies based on the correlation of bank assets … that banks have a common regulator. In our model, the failure of one bank can undermine the public’s confidence in the … forbearance to the initially failing bank in the hope that it - and hence other vulnerable banks - survives. By contrast, public …

In August 2007 the United Kingdom experienced its first bank run in over 140 years. Although Northern Rock was not a … particularly large bank (it was at the time ranked 7th in terms of assets) it was nevertheless a significant retail bank and a … outside the bank as depositors rushed to withdraw their deposits. There was always a fear that this could spark a systemic run …