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The Use of Blanket Guarantees in Banking Crises

Laeven, Luc; Valencia, Fabian - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2008

In episodes of significant banking distress or perceived systemic risk to the financial system, policymakers have often … restructuring programs and may increase moral hazard going forward. Using a sample of 42 episodes of banking crises, this paper …

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Germany; Technical Note on Stress Testing

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 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 …

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France; Selected Issues Paper

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2010

The staff report gives details of some selected issues of France, namely its credit developments, systematic linkages of French banks, the need for a significant fiscal consolidation for macroeconomic stability, an update on the developments of France's external competitiveness, and also the...

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The Economic Crisis; Did Financial Supervision Matter?

Quintyn, Marc; Pansini, Rosaria Vega; Masciandaro, Donato - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2011

The Asian financial crisis marked the beginning of worldwide efforts to improve the effectiveness of financial supervision. However, the crisis that started in 2007?08 was a crude awakening: several of these improvements seemed unable to avoid or mitigate the crisis. This paper brings the first...

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Determinants of Credit Growth and Interest Margins in the Philippines and Asia

Tan, Tatum Blaise Pua - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2012

reserve requirements, greater banking sector development, smaller stock market development and lower government deficits …

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Too Cold, Too Hot, or Just Right? Assessing Financial Sector Development Across the Globe

Barajas, Adolfo; Beck, Thorsten; Dabla-Norris, Era; … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2013

This paper introduces the concept of the financial possibility frontier as a constrained optimum level of financial development to gauge the relative performance of financial systems across the globe. This frontier takes into account structural country characteristics, institutional, and...

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Capital Regulation, Liquidity Requirements and Taxation in a Dynamic Model of Banking

Nicoló, Gianni De; Gamba, Andrea; Lucchetta, Marcella - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2012

This paper studies the impact of bank regulation and taxation in a dynamic model with banks exposed to credit and liquidity risk. We find an inverted U-shaped relationship between capital requirements and bank lending, efficiency, and welfare, with their benefits turning into costs beyond a...

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International comparisons of bank regulation, liberalization, and banking crises

Amri, Puspa; Angkinand, Apanard P.; Wihlborg, Clas - In: Journal of Financial Economic Policy 3 (2011) November, pp. 322-339

Purpose – The recurrence of banking crises throughout the 1980s and 1990s, and in the more recent 2008-09 global … is to provide an analytical review of proxies for and important determinants of banking crises-credit growth, financial … liberalization, bank regulation and supervision. Design/methodology/approach – The study surveys the banking crisis literature by …

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What Drives the Performance of Selected Mena Banks? A+L4624 Meta-Frontier Analysis

Naceur, Sami Ben; Casu, Barbara; Ben-Khedhiri, Hichem - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2011

explaining efficiency differences. To foster banking sector performance, policies should be aimed at giving banks incentives to …

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Financial Stress, Downturns, and Recoveries

Lall, Subir; Cardarelli, Roberto; Elekdag, Selim - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2009

stress-in particular banking distress-on the real economy. It concludes that financial turmoil characterized by banking …, due to the greater procyclicality of leverage in their banking systems. …

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