In this paper, we use a bank-level panel dataset to investigate the determinants of bank interest margins in the … extensions to assess the extent to which high spreads of banks in the CCA can be related to bank-specific variables, to … risk, bank size, bank diversification, banking sector competition, and macroeconomic policies; but the impact depends on …

payments assistance to its members, the Bank of Slovenia agrees to lend to the Fund an SDR-denominated amount up to the …

Eastern European exposures resulted in extraordinary policy efforts to maintain bank lending), providing fertile ground for …

financial access faced by the low-income segments of population, this paper presents an analysis of a novel dataset on bank … the costs of maintaining a bank checking account and conducting a few basic transactions can exceed 5 percent of monthly …

bank net interest margins. Combined with resilient asset quality, wider net interest margins supported record profits for …

of the new bank taxes—in terms of their tax base, rate, duration, and burden. The paper discusses several trade-offs in … the design of bank taxes and argues that an alternative or complementary policy response to temporarily high bank profits … is to lock them in as usable bank capital, for example through an increase in countercyclical capital buffer rates …

economies over the past two decades, our findings reveal a general enhancement in bank stability correlating with the aging of …