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This Article maps financial crisis containment - extraordinary measures to stop the spread of financial distress - as a category of legal and policy choice. I make three claims.First, containment is distinct from financial regulation, crisis prevention and resolution. Containment is brief; it...
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requirements, the enhanced use of supervisory colleges, and proposed bank resolution regimes. In addition to analyzing recent …
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distress. We build the first comprehensive dataset on China’s overseas bailouts between 2000 and 2021 and provide new insights … by the People’s Bank of China is increasingly used as a financial rescue mechanism, with more than USD 170 billion in … together, China’s overseas bailouts correspond to more than 20 percent of total IMF lending over the past decade and bailout …
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The purpose of this paper is to assess whether the banking system, over and beyond its credit function, has a significant impact on per capita GDP by providing means of payment. An annual database of 85 countries spanning the 1980-2008 period is exploited to this end. On the descriptive front,...
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The aim of this paper is to investigate the long run relationship between the development of banks and stock markets and economic growth. We make use of a Johansen-based panel cointegration methodology allowing for cross-country dependence to test the number of cointegrating vectors among these...
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The recent financial crisis has demonstrated that a failure of Systemically Important Financial Institutions (SIFIs) could seriously damage the stability of the financial system. A precise and consistent definition of a SIFI is pivotal to ensure efficient and effective regulation of the global...
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matter for the relative merits of bank-based and market-based financial systems. Market-based systems work better in low rule … of law countries, while bank-based systems are more efficient in high-rule of law countries. These results are consistent … with the premise that market-based systems’ superiority in solving the incomplete information problem dominates over bank …
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The aim of this paper is to analyze the effect of corruption in bank lending. Corruption is expected to hamper bank …. Nevertheless the similarities between the consequences for bank lending of law enforcement and corruption are misleading, as they … consider only judiciary corruption. Corruption can also occur in lending and may then be beneficial for bank lending via bribes …
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The financial crisis has revealed fatal institutional and structural deficits at the finance market. Politics has reacted to the financial crisis with a sea of legal bills and regulations. But all regulating efforts are merely system-imminent reparation measures and do not solve the core...
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Analysis of the financial crisis has revealed not only major market and regulatory failures, but also shortcomings in supervisory approaches and in banks' systems of internal and external controls. These failures and shortcomings played a significant role in the origin and evolution of the...
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