This paper investigates empirically the pass-through of money market interest rates to retail banking interest rates in Chile, the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and five European countries. Overall, Chile's pass-through does not appear atypical. Based on a standard...

This paper presents an update to the report on the Observance of Standards and Codes on Banking Supervision, Payment Systems, and Securities Regulation for Croatia. The 2001 Financial Sector Assessment Program (FSAP) mission assessed Croatia’s compliance with the Basel Core Principles for...

An examination of the relationship between bank profitability and concentration using recent data from a sample of institutions drawn from non-metropolitan statistical area counties in Ohio and Pennsylvania.

An examination of whether deregulation of the financial services industry has led to a disproportionate number of office closings in poor and minority neighborhoods.