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Toward An Effective Supervision of Partially Dollarized Banking Systems

Garcia Pascual, Antonio - 2006

The paper presents a supervisory framework that addresses the vulnerabilities of partially dollarized banking systems. The tendency to underprice systemic liquidity risk and currency-induced credit risk creates vulnerabilities that need supervisory responses. The framework seeks to induce agents...

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Banking Spreads in Latin America

Gelos, Gaston - 2006

intermediation, such as inflation and bank profit taxation … bank interest margins in that region using bank and country-level data from 85 countries, including 14 Latin American …

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State-Owned Banks, Stability, Privatization, and Growth : Practical Policy Decisions in a World without Empirical Proof

Andrews, Michael - 2005

provide guidance to policymakers regarding bank privatization …

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Bank Ownership, Market Structure and Risk

De Nicoló, Gianni - 2007

relationship between banks'' risk of failure, market structure, bank ownership, and banks'' screening and bankruptcy costs. These …,000 bank-year observations for 133 non-industrialized countries during the 1993-2004 period. Four main results obtain. First …, the positive and significant relationship between bank concentration and bank risk of failure found in Boyd, De Nicolò and …

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Financial Globalization and the Governance of Domestic Financial Intermediaries

Tressel, Thierry - 2007

We model an economy in which domestic banks and firms face incentive constraints, as in Holmstrom and Tirole (1997). Firms borrow from banks and uninformed investors, and can collude with banks to reduce the intensity of monitoring. We study the general equilibrium effects of capital flows...

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Italy : Assessing Competition and Efficiency in the Banking System

International Monetary Fund - 2007

The paper assesses the degree of banking competition and efficiency in Italy?over time as well as compared to that in other countries, such as France, Germany, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The paper finds competition in the Italian banking sector has intensified in loan and...

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Explaining Efficiency Differences Among Large German and Austrian Banks

Hauner, David - 2004

Cost-efficiency, scale efficiency, and productivity change are estimated by data envelopment analysis; and cost-efficiency is regressed on explanatory variables. No evidence is found for average productivity responding to deregulation over the period studied. State-owned banks are found to be...

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Capital Flows and Economic Fluctuations : The Role of Commercials Banks in Transmitting Shocks

Zhou, Yong Sarah - 2008

additionally reducing the available bank credit to firms through a ""deposit run"". Empirical results from a VAR model broadly …

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Depositor Behavior and Market Discipline in Colombia

Steiner, Roberto - 2000

discipline bank behavior. By controlling for a more comprehensive set of risk/return factors, the study improves upon …

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Factor Model for Stress-Testing with a Contingent Claims Model of the Chilean Banking System

Gray, Dale F. - 2008

developments in Chile and outside, but bank responses are highly heterogeneous. To reduce the number of variables linked to the … magnitude and persistence of responses of bank credit risk can vary across banks in the system …

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