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Drawing from a unique data set comprising 2,893 banks and 152 countries over the period 1987 to 2000, we test whether the adoption of the Basel Accord by Latin American and Caribbean countries was responsible for the serious slowdowns in credit growth experienced by these countries. We find...
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On 3 December EY hosted a SUERF conference on banking reform with Sir Howard Davies, the Chairman of RBS, and Dame … Colette Bowe, the Chairman of the Banking Standards Board, as the two keynote speakers. Professor David Miles (Imperial … College) gave the SUERF 2015 Annual Lecture on Capital and Banks. The conference focused on core aspects of banking reform …
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The typical portrait of monetary policy has the banks and the money supply being manipulated through changes in bank reserves. However, with only a small portion of bank deposits now subject to reserve requirements, an alternative explanation of how monetary policy influences banks is needed....
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This paper studies why currency and monetary shock hit Indonesia's economy and banking sector so severely and the … measures that were taken to deal with the banking crisis, the lessons learned, and challenges faced in restructuring and … strengthening the banking system. The vulnerable state of the banking sector, in combination with exchange rate and interest rate …
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interest rates and banking risk is more complex. Ultimately, it depends on how much skin in the game banks have. The central … message of the paper is broadly complementary to those in the recent MCM board paper “Central Banking Lessons from the …
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This staff report on United Kingdom’s (UK) 2013 Article IV Consultation highlights economic policies and development. The UK economy grew by about ¼ percent in 2012. Net trade reduced growth by 0.6 percentage points of GDP, the biggest drag since 2005, and well above staff projections....
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On 16th November 2009, SUERF, CEPS and the Belgian Financial Forum coorganized a conference "Crisis management at cross-roads" in Brussels. All papers in the present volume are based on contributions at the conference and the SUERF Annual Lecture which followed the event.
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The path between financial meltdown and moral hazard in banking is, at best, narrow and impervious. During the …
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In this paper I investigate the risk-taking channel of the monetary policy in the U.S. during the period of Large Scale Assets Purchases (LSAPs) programs; from November 2008 to September 2014. Using High-Frequency Identification (HFI) estimates of the monetary policy stance and constructed data...
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