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Oil Prices and Bank Profitability : Evidence From Major Oil-Exporting Countries in the Middle East and North Africa

Hesse, Heiko - 2009

This paper analyzes the relationship between oil price shocks and bank profitability. Using data on 145 banks in 11 oil …-exporting MENA countries for 1994-2008, we test hypotheses of direct and indirect effects of oil price shocks on bank profitability …. Our results indicate that oil price shocks have indirect effect on bank profitability, channeled through country …

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Estimating Default Frequencies and Macrofinancial Linkages in the Mexican Banking Sector

Souto, Marcos - 2009

The credit risk measures we develop in this paper are used to investigate macrofinancial linkages in the Mexican banking system. Domestic and external macro-financial variables are found to be closely associated with banking soundness. At the aggregate level, high external volatility and...

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Financial Intermediation, Competition, and Risk : A General Equilibrium Exposition

De Nicoló, Gianni - 2009

banks can extract market power rents. We show that more bank competition results in lower economy-wide risk, lower bank … allocation and optimal levels of bank risk and capitalization. These results are at variance with those obtained by a large …

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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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Should Banks Be Narrowed?

Bossone, Biaggio - 2001

the real economy. The study also runs an empirical exercise to estimate the costs of bank narrowness and draws policy …

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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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The Performance of Indian Banks During Financial Liberalization

Koeva Brooks, Petya - 2003

commercial banks. The analysis focuses on examining the behavior and determinants of bank intermediation costs and profitability …

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