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Contagion Risk in the International Banking System and Implications for London As a Global Financial Center

Chan-Lau, Jorge A.; Mitra, Srobona; Ong, Li L. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2007

banking system. We test for the likelihood that an extreme shock affecting a major, systemic U.K. bank would also affect …

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Financial Reforms and Interest Rate Spreads in the Commercial Banking System in Malawi

Chirwa, Ephraim W.; Mlachila, Montfort - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2002

This study investigates the impact of financial sector reforms on interest rate spreads in the commercial banking … system in Malawi. The financial reform program commenced in 1989 when both the Reserve Bank Act and the Banking Act were … revised with the easing of entry requirements into the banking system, and indirect monetary policy instruments were …

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Internal Models-Based Capital Regulation and Bank Risk-Taking Incentives

Kupiec, Paul H. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2002

Advocates for internal model-based capital regulation argue that this approach will reduce costs and remove distortions that are created by rules-based capital regulations. These claims are examined using a Merton-style model of deposit insurance. Analysis shows that internal model-based capital...

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Recovery Determinants of Distressed Banks; Regulators, Market Discipline, or the Environment?

Koetter, Michael; Poghosyan, Tigran; Kick, Thomas - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2010

Based on detailed regulatory intervention data among German banks during 1994-2008, we test if supervisory measures affect the likelihood and the timing of bank recovery. Severe regulatory measures increase both the likelihood of recovery and its duration while weak measures are insignificant....

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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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Djibouti; Selected Issues

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2004

The most important challenge faced by the Djibouti authorities is to achieve high rates of economic growth in order to create employment opportunities for a rapidly increasing labor force and to alleviate rising poverty. In this paper, developments and the role of the financial system during the...

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The Monetary Policy Regime and Banking Spreads in Barbados

Valderrama, Laura; Samuel, Wendell A. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2006

The paper analyzes the determinants of banking spreads in Barbados, with a view to identifying the role of the monetary … suggested by its macroeconomic performance. Banking concentration and bank-specific variables, including bank size and …

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Finance in Lower Income Countries; An Empirical Exploration

Gupta, Poonam; Tressel, Thierry; Detragiache, Enrica - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2005

This paper considers how a comprehensive set of factors relates to financial sector performance in low-income countries (LICs). It finds that corruption and inflation are associated with a shallower and less efficient financial system, while legal origin and characteristics of the supervisory...

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The Lending Channel in Emerging Economies; Are Foreign Banks Different?

Vázquez, Francisco F.; Reinhart, Carmen; Arena, Marco - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2007

This paper exploits a panel dataset comprising 1,565 banks in 20 emerging countries during 1989- 2001 and compares the response of the volume of loans and the rates on loans and deposits to various measures of monetary conditions across domestic and foreign banks. It also looks for systematic...

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Bank Risk and the Declining Franchise Value of the Banking Systems in the United States and Japan

Lee, Howard; Rojas-Suárez, Liliana; Weisbrod, Steven Riess - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 1992

earnings at wholesale banks in Japan with a reduction in the franchise value of wholesale banking. In contrast with the … conventional view that relates the franchise value of banking to informational advantages over other lenders, this paper argues … value. The paper also analyzes recent proposals for banking reform and assesses their relevance for dealing with the …

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