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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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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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additionally reducing the available bank credit to firms through a ""deposit run"". Empirical results from a VAR model broadly …
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discipline bank behavior. By controlling for a more comprehensive set of risk/return factors, the study improves upon …
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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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significant bank consolidation has been taking place in these countries, reflected in a sharp decline in the number of banks, this …
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The paper analyses the cost and effectiveness of bank restructuring policies in 11 transition countries during 1991 …
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commercial bank efficiency by applying a version of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to bank-level data from a wide range of … transition countries. In addition to stressing the importance of some bank-specific variables, the censored Tobit analysis … suggests that (1) foreign ownership with controlling power and enterprise restructuring enhances commercial bank efficiency; (2 …
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The aim of this paper is to take a closer look at IMF conditionality in the banking sector. Our analysis shows that while such conditionality became more stringent following the Asian crisis, compliance has remained broadly unchanged, comparing unfavorably with other structural reforms. The...
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