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Consumer Financial Protection in the COVID-19 Crisis : An Emergency Agenda
Cordray, Richard - 2020
The coronavirus pandemic is creating overwhelming needs, in three waves. First is the health crisis; second is the macroeconomic crisis created by the abrupt halt in much business activity; and now third is a consumer crisis, as households are faced with total or partial job loss, sharp income...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012837811
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Consumer Protection Through Soft Law in an Era of Global Financial Crisis
Plato-Shinar, Ruth - 2019
The global financial crisis triggered a vast number of new laws and regulations at international level, including initiatives that can be classified as "soft law". The legitimacy and efficacy of these new norms are subject to intensive academic and political debates. At the same time, soft law...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012903436
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Bank Competition and Stability : Cross-Country Heterogeneity
Beck, Thorsten - 2012
This paper documents large cross-country variation in the relationship between bank competition and bank stability and … explores market, regulatory and institutional features that can explain this variation. We show that an increase in competition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013114400
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Bank Competition and Stability : Cross-Country Heterogeneity
Beck, Thorsten - 2012
This paper documents large cross-country variation in the relationship between bank competition and bank stability and … explores market, regulatory and institutional features that can explain this variation. We show that an increase in competition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013115499
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Is the Financial Safety Net a Barrier to Cross-Border Banking?
Huizinga, Harry - 2011
A bank's interest expenses are found to increase with its degree of internationalization as proxied by its share of foreign liabilities in total liabilities or a Herfindahl index of international liability concentration, especially if the bank is performing badly. Our benchmark estimation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117739
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Does Banking System Transparency Enhance Bank Competition? Cross-Country Evidence
Andrievskaya, Irina - 2014
system and to stimulate bank competition, it is necessary to raise the level of bank information transparency. However …, empirical studies which examine the determinants of competition in the financial sector, the effect of competition on financial … competition. The aim of this paper is to fill this gap in the literature. To test the hypothesis that greater bank information …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013047754
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MENA Banking Competitiveness in the New Era of Global Financial Crisis and Increasing Political Risk
Elfeituri, Hatem - 2018
issues. Our findings indicate that MENA banks are still operating under monopolistic competition conditions. With regards to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012916997
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On Regulation, Supervision, (De)Leveraging and Banking Competition : Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger?
De Jonghe, Olivier - 2015
This paper examines international differences in banks' capital structure adjustments across a large panel of 94 countries over the period 1993 to 2007. A bank's ability to adjust its capital ratio is influenced by corporate governance, public policy, market structure, and bank regulatory...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013038131
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Institutional diversity in domestic banking sectors and bank stability : a cross-country study
Baum, Christopher F.; Grazzini, Caterina Forti; … - 2020 - This version: May 9, 2020
This paper analyzes the causal relationship between institutional diversity in domestic banking sectors and bank stability. We use a large bank- and country-level unbalanced panel data set covering the EU member states' banking sectors between 1998 and 2014. Constructing two distinct indicators...
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