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We examine the impact of various dimensions of financial reform on the likelihood of systemic and non-systemic banking crises. Using new financial reform measures for a large sample of developing and developed countries for the period 1973 to 2002, our multivariate probit modeling results...
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This paper explores the transmission of non-capital shocks through banking networks. We develop a methodology to construct non-capital (idiosyncratic) shocks, using labor productivity shocks to large firms. We document a change in the relationship between foreign idiosyncratic shocks and...
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We examine the impact of various dimensions of financial reform on the likelihood of systemic and non-systemic banking crises. Using new financial reform measures for a large sample of developing and developed countries for the period 1973 to 2002, our multivariate probit modeling results...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013095277
This paper reviews the cost-benefit analysis, or "regulatory impact analysis" (RIA), in U.S. bank regulators' risk-based capital (RBC) rule proposals. We provide a brief background on RBC rules and review the literature on their costs and benefits. We evaluate 25 proposed RBC rules and related...
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Although liquidity creation is a key banking function, little is known about its determinants. We use a new identification strategy to assess whether an intensification of competition among banks increases or decreases liquidity creation. Consistent with the predictions of some theoretical...
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Does an increase in competition increase or decrease bank stability? I exploit how the state-specific process of interstate banking deregulation lowered barriers to entry into urban banking markets and find that greater competition significantly increases bank stability. This result is robust to...
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Although policymakers often discuss tradeoffs between bank competition and stability, past research provides differing theoretical perspectives and empirical results on the impact of competition on risk. In this paper, we employ a new approach for identifying exogenous changes in the competitive...
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Improving firms' innovation capability is crucial for promoting growth. In 2006 and 2009, China deregulated the banking industry and allowed city banks to set up branches across regions, which changed the banking structure and competition. Using data from financial licence information and...
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? Unlike bank lending from Europe or Japan, U.S. bank lending to emerging economies exhibited increasing volatility over time …
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Bank deregulation in the form of the repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act facilitated the entry of non-bank lenders into the market for syndicated loans during the pre-2008 credit boom. Institutional investors disproportionately purchase tranches of loans originated by universal banks able to...
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