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Financial inclusion is receiving increasing attention for its potential to contribute to economic and financial development while fostering more inclusive growth and greater income equality. Although substantial progress has been made, there is still much to achieve. East Asia, the Pacific, and...
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To reconcile the mixed empirical results, we develop a theoretical model whose main implication is a concave impact of regulation on the probability of a crisis. We test this relationship by applying a Probit model of a non-linear specification to annual data from 1999 to 2011 drawn from 132...
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This paper describes concepts and tools behind macroprudential monitoring, and the growing importance of macroprudential tools for assessing the stability of financial systems. This paper also employs a macroprudential approach in examining financial soundness and identifying its determinants....
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importance of the different risks (e.g., liquidity, currency, and interest rate risks). Regarding the assessment of the soundness …
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financial stability. Our analysis suggests that, going into the financial crisis, banks' disclosures about relevant risk … exposures were relatively sparse. Such disclosures came later after major concerns about banks' exposures had arisen in markets …. Similarly, banks delayed the recognition of loan losses. Banks' incentives seem to drive this evidence, suggesting that …
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This paper studies the extent to which monetary policy may affect banks' perception of credit risk and the way banks … indicators on banks' risk weights for credit risk. We present robust evidence of the existence of the risk-taking channel in the … possible side-effects of monetary policy on how banks measure risk. …
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This paper describes concepts and tools behind macroprudential monitoring and the growing importance of macroprudential tools for assessing the stability of financial systems. This paper also employs a macroprudential approach in examining financial soundness and identifying its determinants....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009768766
dollar credit supply to non-US firms (relative to banks), mitigating the dollar credit reduction. This increase is stronger … funding, relative to banks. In sum, despite increased risk-taking by less regulated and more fragile nonbanks (relative to … banks), access to nonbank credit reduces the volatility in capital flows-and associated economic activity-stemming from US …
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We investigate profit shifting by the largest and systemically relevant European multinational banks using new data …
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banks' liabilities thereby decreasing the cost of equity relative to the cost of debt. Using a difference …-in-differences approach we assess the impact of this tax levy on banks' participation in the syndicated loan market. We further investigate … the impact of the tax levy along bank size and capital structure. We find that banks located in countries where the tax …
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