This paper investigates how government interventions into banking systems such as blanket guarantees, liquidity support, recapitalizations, and nationalizations affect banking competition. This debate is important because the pricing of banking products has implications for borrower and...

This collection of articles by economists and historians of banking examines the question of financial crises and crashes in recent years. Theories and interpretations concerning the most recent financial crisis are first presented, followed by a debate concerning the ability of financial...

This paper explores the relationship between financial reforms, financial liberalization and the quality of banking regulation and supervision for financial fragility by applying a dynamic two-step system generalized method of moments GMM panel estimator technique. The finding of this study is...