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Measuring Integrated Market and Credit Risks in Bank Portfolios : An Application to a Set of Hypothetical Banks Operation in South Africa

Papapanagiotou, Panagiotis - 2000

links changes in the financial environment and the distribution of future bank capital ratios. This forward …

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Currency Crises and the Real Economy : The Role of Banks

Disyatat, Piti - 2001

This paper shows that the quality of banks within each country is one of the important factors that can account for the fact that developing economies tend to suffer more severe output contractions in the wake of a currency crisis than more mature economies. In particular, countries with a...

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What Happens After Supervisory Intervention? : Considering Bank Closure Options

Josefsson, Mats - 2003

Closures have been used to resolve problem banks in many countries in a wide range of economic circumstances, yet banking supervisors frequently defer intervention and closure. Avoiding the costs of disruption is the principal argument in favor of extraordinary measures, such as the use of...

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Bank Competition and Firm Creation

Dell'Ariccia, Giovanni - 2001

firms in the non-financial sector. It finds that bank competition has an overall positive effect on firm creation. However … firms, it also finds that asymmetric information limits the overall positive effect of bank competition on firm creation …. Indeed, bank competition is less favorable to the emergence of new firms in industrial sectors where informational …

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Euro-Area Banking At the Crossroads

Belaisch, Agnes - 2001

This paper analyses the process of disintermediation, the progress in consolidation, the impact of new technologies, and the role of ownership and control structures for the euro area banking sector. The impact of these trends on competition policy, ""too big to fail"" concerns, and financial...

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Prudential Issues in Less Diversified Economies

Narain, Aditya - 2003

This paper examines the prudential issues associated with credit concentration in less diversified economies (LDEs), which are identified as countries where one or two sectors represent a large share of exports. In preparing this analysis, the characteristics of their financial and banking...

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Republic of Serbia : Financial Sector Assessment Program Update: Technical Note on Banking Sector Soundness and Stress Testing

International Monetary Fund - 2010

This Technical Note reviews banking sector soundness and stress testing in Serbia. Serbia’s banking sector is well capitalized and liquid, but the corporate sector’s weak performance is a source of concern because of its adverse impact on nonperforming loans. Stress tests indicate that banks...

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Bank Credit, Asset Prices and Financial Stability : Evidence From French Banks

Pouvelle, Cyril - 2012

supply factors, both for the whole 1993-2010 period and during periods of financial instability. Using bank-level panel data …

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Bank of Japan's Quantitative and Credit Easing : Are they Now More Effective

Fasano-Filho, Ugo - 2002

This paper asks whether the BoJ''s recent experience with unconventional monetary easing has been effective in supporting economic activity and inflation. Using a structural VAR model, the paper finds some evidence that BoJ''s monetary policy measures during 1998-2010 have had an impact on...

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Bank Asset Quality in Emerging Markets : Determinants and Spillovers

De Bock, Reinout - 2012

This paper assesses the vulnerability of emerging markets and their banks to aggregate shocks. We find significant links between banks'' asset quality, credit and macroeconomic aggregates. Lower economic growth, an exchange rate depreciation, weaker terms of trade and a fall in debt-creating...

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