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Recapitalizing Banks with Public Funds : Selected Issues

International Monetary Fund - 1999

intervention and careful management at both the strategic and individual bank levels. This paper highlights the range of …

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Competition and Efficiency in Banking : Behavioral Evidence From Ghana

Mathisen, Johan - 2005

This paper assesses the degree of bank competition and discusses efficiency with regard to banks'' financial …

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Bank Consolidation and Performance : The Argentine Experience

International Monetary Fund - 2004

We examine a large panel of more than 100 banks from Argentina to study the effects of bank consolidation on … performance between December 1995 and December 2000, a period of heavy bank consolidation and relative calm. Overall, we find a … positive and significant effect of bank consolidation on bank performance. Bank returns increase with consolidation, and …

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Fiscal Aspects of Bank Restructuring

Daniel, James - 1997

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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Should Financial Sector Regulators Be Independent?

Quintyn, Marc - 2004

In nearly every major financial crisis of the past decade-from East Asia to Russia, Turkey, and Latin America-political interference in financial sector regulation helped make a bad situation worse. Political pressures not only weakened financial regulation, but also hindered regulators and...

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U.S. Bank Behavior in the Wake of the 2007-2009 Financial Crisis

Hakura, Dalia - 2010

The paper examines the slowdown of lending by large U.S. banks over the period 2007Q3 - 2009Q2, focusing on: (i) whether capital or liquidity was the binding constraint; (ii) factors influencing banks’ decision to hold capital; and (iii) their pricing behavior. Using quarterly data for the...

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Banking Efficiency and Financial Development in Sub-Saharan Africa

Kablan, Sandrine - 2010

This study assesses the determinants of banking system efficiency in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and asks what, besides the degree of efficiency, explains the low level of financial development in the region. It uses stochastic frontier analysis to measure efficiency and a generalized method of...

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Issues in the Establishment of Asset Management Companies

Ingves, Stefan N. - 2004

This paper discusses the role of asset management companies (AMCs) in facilitating bank restructuring and specifies … a combination of strategies that will vary from bank to bank and country to country. There are, however, common factors …

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Issuing Government Bonds to Finance Bank Recapitalization and Restructuring : Design Factors that Affect Banks' Financial Performance

Andrews, Michael - 2003

Bonds issued by the government or government agencies are often used to finance bank restructuring following a systemic … crisis. Many conflicting considerations affect the design of the bonds used to pay for public sector investment in bank … risks, laying the foundation for future banking sector problems. Sovereign default makes publicly financed bank …

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Lessons From Systemic Bank Restructing

International Monetary Fund - 1998

Systemic bank restructing aims to improve bank performance - that is, restore solvency and profitability, improve the …

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