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We study the differential impact of exchange rate volatility on cost efficiency and market structure when banks have … cost efficiency estimates are both severely downward biased---by 30 percentage points on average---and generally not rank … dependence in the bank cost efficiency rankings constructed with the revaluations being kept or dropped. We relate this …
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The traditional predictor of technical inefficiency proposed by Jondrow et al. (1982) is a conditional expectation. We study whether, and by how much, the predictor can be improved by using auxiliary information in the conditioning set. To do so, we use simulations to study two types of...
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We study the differential impact of exchange rate volatility on cost efficiency and market structure when banks have … non-trivial exposures to foreign currency operations. First, we document that cost efficiency estimates are both severely …
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Properly designed wholesale payments system can make a significant contribution to enhancing market discipline in the financial sector, reducing the risk of systemic disturbance and permitting a less extensive safety net for financial institutions. The objective of these reforms has been to...
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In their effort to finance fiscal deficits at a reasonable cost, governments compete with other users of financial capital. Governments, however, are in the unique position that they are the only debt suppliers that can determine the taxation of debt instruments they issue. Following an overview...
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Financial regulation is often framed as a question of economic efficiency. This paper, by contrast, puts the … risktaking map into different levels of welfare for the two parties. A regulator has to trade off efficiency in the financial … sector, which is aided by deregulation, against efficiency in the real economy, which is aided by tighter regulation and a …
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