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How does bank competition affect solvency, liquidity and credit risk? : evidence from the MENA countries

Almarzoqi, Raja; Ben Naceur, Samy; Scopelliti, … - 2015

The paper analyzes the relationship between bank competition and stability, with a specific focus on the Middle East and North Africa. Price competition has a positive effect on bank liquidity, as it induces self-discipline incentives on banks for the choice of bank funding sources and for the...

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Designing effective macroprudential stress tests : progress so far and the way forward

Demekas, Dimitri G. - 2015

Giving stress tests a macroprudential perspective requires (i) incorporating general equilibrium dimensions, so that the outcome of the test depends not only on the size of the shock and the buffers of individual institutions but also on their behavioral responses and their interactions with...

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How does post-crisis bank capital adequacy affect firm investment?

Sun, Yangfan; Tong, Hui - 2015

We examine the effect of bank capital levels on firm investment drawing on a sample of 11,106 non-financial firms from 2007 to 2013 in 16 advanced economies. We examine two measures of bank capital adequacy, the Tier 1 ratio and a simple leverage ratio, and find that firms with larger external...

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Banks in the global integrated monetary and fiscal model

Andrle, Michal; Kumhof, Michael; Laxton, Douglas; Muir, Dirk - 2015

fully specified banking sector that can make lending losses, and that is regulated according to Basel-III. We illustrate the …

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Banking in Sub-Saharan Africa : the macroeconomic context

Montfort, Mlachila; Park, Seok Gil; Yabara, Masafumi - 2013

productivity and skill levels, and improving the business climate, among others. The banking sector remains underdeveloped in SSA … weather adverse effects of the global financial crisis. It is imperative that the banking sector plays a more active role in … the coming years; it then reviews the main features of SSA banking systems and how they were affected by the global …