This thesis consists of three chapters that explore issues related to bank capital, multinational bank supervision, and bank lending in a developing country. The first chapter explores the impact of peer banks on bank capital adjustments. The second chapter evaluates the extent to which...

The interest in corporate governance has grown globally over the past decade, due to the numerous financial scandals. These particularly related to the transparency, disclosure, control and accountability, and the board which might be able to prevent such scandals in the future. For emerging...

Contents: 1. Jürgen von Hagen, Jean Pisani-Ferry - Forum Economique Franco-Allemand /Deutsch-Französisches Wirtschaftspolitisches Forum ...1 -- 2. Karel Lannoo - Financial Supervision in EMU ...3 -- 3. Charles Wyplosz - Economic Policy Coordination in EMU: Strategies and Institutions...36 --...

The work is a normative approach towards the financial stability of a society comprising banks, firms, and a central bank (research field: macroeconomics/financial stability). I propose new rules that will endogenously emerge from the analysis to decrease the financial instability of the system....