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This paper examines the impact of regulatory reform on TFP growth and its sources and on the relationship between ownership and cost efficiency for Indian banks in 1992-2004. The methodology consists of the joint use of parametric and non-parametric techniques to estimate efficiency frontiers....
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crisis, recent advances in global liquidity regulation try to curb the excessive reliance on short-term wholesale funding … regulation may interfere with the central bank's influence on short-term money market rates. This paper tries to fill the gap in … asymmetric information. Regulation can be welfare-improving in the presence of an externality and also in case of collateral …
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We propose a spatial competition model to study banks’ strategic responses to the asymmetric Spanish geographic deregulation process. We find that once the geographic deregulation process finishes, inter-regional mergers between savings banks are optimal whenever the economies of scale...
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Financial regulation should be countercyclical, strengthening during speculative booms to contain excessive leverage … and loosening following crises so as to not limit credit extension in hard times. And yet, financial regulation in fact … choice perspective on financial regulation, i.e. rational choice ideas drawn from economics and applied to politics, but with …
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Reforming regulation of the financial sector is currently among the most immediate concerns of domestic and … reform. It argues that the process of reforming financial regulation should begin with a comprehensive, granular study of …-containment with regulatory reform and may end up designing a retrospective framework for financial regulation. A comprehensive post …
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have begun to adapt their access regulation regimes to the new technological conditions. The regulatory reactions gravitate … towards three distinct regulatory trajectories: unregulated competition, access regulation, and structural separation. We …
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This paper assesses the integration strategy of the European Union in regulated network markets. The paper argues that in these markets integration should not be an end in itself. In regulated markets the conventional gains from trade or freedom of establishment may be outweighed by significant...
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discuss implications for the regulation of financial institutions …
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Regulation is often funded with fees paid by regulated firms, potentially creating incentive problems. We use this … that pay higher fees may face more lenient regulation, when leniency increases regulatory budgets in the short term. Our … novel dataset on fees and regulatory actions, we find that firms that pay higher fees face more lenient regulation, which …
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We analyze the effect of a U.S. subprime mortgage regulation on the availability of mortgagecredit. Due to all subprime … mortgage originators being affected by the regulation studied,there is no natural control group. We use a pro t maximization … assumption to construct acontrol group. We nd no statistically signi cant impact of the regulation, despite about 200institutions …
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