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Interest Rate Spreads in the Eastern Caribbean

Randall, Ruby - 1998

This paper examines interest rate spreads in the Eastern Caribbean and seeks to explain why they are persistently high by comparison with other low-inflation countries. The paper concludes that operating costs appear to be a key determinant of observed interest rate spreads, giving rise to the...

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A Cross-Country Non-Parametric Analysis of Bahrain's Banking Sector

Manole, Vlad - 2005

Bahrain''s financial sector development strategy succeeded in building a leading regional banking center, which has become one of the main engines of growth and sources of employment. Although the simulations conducted in the paper suggest that the banking sector in Bahrain continues to occupy a...

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Bank Rating Changes and Bank Stock Returns : Puzzling Evidence From the Emerging Markets

Richards, Anthony J. - 1999

This paper examines the performance of emerging market bank stocks around the time of rating changes by major …

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Bank Efficiency and Market Structure : What Determines Banking Spreads in Armenia?

Floerkemeier, Holger - 2007

interest rate spreads and margins in Armenia using a bank-level panel dataset for the period 2002 to 2006. We find that bank …-specific factors, such as bank size, liquidity, and market power, as well as the market structure within which banks operate, explain a …

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Recapitalizing Banks with Public Funds : Selected Issues

International Monetary Fund - 1999

intervention and careful management at both the strategic and individual bank levels. This paper highlights the range of …

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Competition and Efficiency in Banking : Behavioral Evidence From Ghana

Mathisen, Johan - 2005

This paper assesses the degree of bank competition and discusses efficiency with regard to banks'' financial …

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Bank Consolidation and Performance : The Argentine Experience

International Monetary Fund - 2004

We examine a large panel of more than 100 banks from Argentina to study the effects of bank consolidation on … performance between December 1995 and December 2000, a period of heavy bank consolidation and relative calm. Overall, we find a … positive and significant effect of bank consolidation on bank performance. Bank returns increase with consolidation, and …

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Fiscal Aspects of Bank Restructuring

Daniel, James - 1997

Governments frequently assist troubled banks. This paper examines the fiscal aspects of such assistance: rationale, design criteria, methods, and macroeconomic implications. It concludes that (1) banks should be assisted only when there is a clear systemic risk; (2) assistance should be tied to...

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Should Financial Sector Regulators Be Independent?

Quintyn, Marc - 2004

In nearly every major financial crisis of the past decade-from East Asia to Russia, Turkey, and Latin America-political interference in financial sector regulation helped make a bad situation worse. Political pressures not only weakened financial regulation, but also hindered regulators and...

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U.S. Bank Behavior in the Wake of the 2007-2009 Financial Crisis

Hakura, Dalia - 2010

The paper examines the slowdown of lending by large U.S. banks over the period 2007Q3 - 2009Q2, focusing on: (i) whether capital or liquidity was the binding constraint; (ii) factors influencing banks’ decision to hold capital; and (iii) their pricing behavior. Using quarterly data for the...

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