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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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Assessing Bank Competition within the East African Community

Sanya, Sarah - 2012

This paper is an empirical analysis of competitiveness in the banking system of four out of the five East African Community (EAC) countries2. The results show that the degree of competition is low due to a combination of structural and socio-economic factors. By way of preview, the analysis...

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Debt, Taxes, and Banks

Keen, Michael - 2012

presence of both regulatory constraints and tax asymmetries, this paper explores the impact of corporate tax bias on bank …

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The Valuation Effects of Geographic Diversification : Evidence From U.S. Banks

Laeven, Luc - 2012

This paper assesses the impact of the geographic diversification of bank holding company (BHC) assets across the United … States on their market valuations. Using two novel identification strategies based on the dynamic process of interstate bank …

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Germany : Technical Note on Banking Sector Structure

International Monetary Fund - 2011

savings, and bank profitability and efficiency. It also examines the benefits of public involvement and governance in the …

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Bank Competition and Financial Stability : A General Equilibrium Exposition

Lucchetta, Marcella - 2011

the lowest feasible level of bank risk. Conversely, if the intermediation technology exhibits constant returns to scale …, or is relatively inefficient, then imperfect competition and intermediate levels of bank risks are optimal. These results …

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Germany : Technical Note on Stress Testing

International Monetary Fund - 2011

This note summarizes the stress tests undertaken for the German banking system as part of the Financial Sector Assessment Program (FSAP) update. Solvency tests for the German banking system assessed medium-term vulnerabilities under two adverse macroeconomic scenarios. The tests considered a...

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Slovenia : Selected Issues

International Monetary Fund - 1998

This Selected Issues paper examines the progress of Slovenia by focusing on four interrelated topics that are critically important to the evolution of the transition process and provides insights into the work that lies ahead. The paper concludes that the voucher-based privatization process has...

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The Effects of the Global Crisison Islamic and Conventional Banks : A Comparative Study

Dridi, Jemma - 2010

This paper examines the performance of Islamic banks (IBs) and conventional banks (CBs) during the recent global crisis by looking at the impact of the crisis on profitability, credit and asset growth, and external ratings in a group of countries where the two types of banks have significant...

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The Eurozone Crisis : How Banks and Sovereigns Came to Be Joined At the Hip

Sandri, Damiano - 2011

We use the rise and dispersion of sovereign spreads to tell the story of the emergence and escalation of financial tensions within the eurozone. This process evolved through three stages. Following the onset of the Subprime crisis in July 2007, spreads rose but mainly due to common global...

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