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This paper investigates how government-led banking liberalization affects credit allocation by banks using as a quasi …
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statistically significant). Looking at financial instability, the paper finds that banking crises predict increases in state …-ownership but that there is no evidence that high state-ownership predicts banking crises. Focusing on bank performance, the paper …
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credit bureaus, redirecting banking regulation toward the protection of borrowers in long-term credit relationships, and …
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This paper examines the impacts of banking market structure and regulation on economic growth using new data on banking … manufacturing sector was expanding rapidly and restrictive branching laws segmented the U.S. banking system geographically. Unlike … studies of developing and developed countries today, we find that banking market concentration generally had a positive impact …
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Banks' liquidity holdings are comfortably above legal or prudential requirements in most Central American countries. While good for financial stability, high systemic liquidity may nonetheless hinder monetary policy transmission and financial markets development. Using a panel of about 100...
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Banks' liquidity holdings are comfortably above legal or prudential requirements in most Central American countries. While good for financial stability, high liquidity may nonetheless hinder financial market development and monetary policy transmission. Using a panel of 96 commercial banks from...
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Using administrative account level data, we study the largest financial inclusion program in India that led to 255 million new bank account openings. About 77% of these accounts maintain a positive balance. While the initial usage remains quite infrequent, it gradually converges to that of...
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developing countries. This paper examines the impact of banking sector liberalization on long-term economic growth in Pakistan by … relationship between banking sector development and economic growth in the country. The sensitivity analysis also shows that the …, our findings support the core idea that banking sector development stimulates long term economic growth in a country …
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The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether bank capital strength and external auditing requirements influenced international stock market stability during the 2007/2008 global financial crisis. Bank mandatory regulation data are obtained from the World Bank database, while stock market...
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In this study, using the World Bank's Bank Regulation and Supervision Survey (BRSS) data, we draw insights about the bank regulatory/supervisory styles, illustrate the differences in regulation/supervision among crisis, non-crisis and BRICS countries, and highlight the ways in which bank...
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