This paper studies whether compliance with the Basel Core Principles for effective banking supervision is associated with bank soundness. Using data for more than 3,000 banks in 86 countries, the authors find that neither the overall index of compliance with the Basel Core Principles nor the...

The global financial crisis has focused much attention on procyclicality, particularly in the context of a macroprudential framework. This paper reviews a set of prudential measures that can be adopted by national authorities to deal with procyclicality and discusses issues in designing and...

Despite the extensive attention that the Basel capital adequacy standards have received internationally, significant variation exists in the implementation of these standards across countries. Furthermore, a significant number of countries increase or decrease the stringency of capital...

Die Regulierung von Finanzinstituten erfuhr in den letzten Jahren einen grundlegenden Paradigmenwechsel. Hierbei wurde die Idee einer makroprudentiellen Bankenregulierung neu aufgegriffen. Makroprudentiell meint, dass im Gegensatz zum mikroprudentiellen Pendant nicht die individuellen Risiken...