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McLeod, Ross - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2002

Abstract: Despite repeated commitments by successive governments in Indonesia to divestment of state-owned enterprises, little has occurred. There has been considerable experimentation with a different kind of privatisation, however, involving reforms that opened up markets previously dominated...

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Banking in Brazil: Structure, Performance, Drivers, and Policy Implications

Urdapilleta, Eduardo; Stephanou, Constantinos - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2009

he objective of this paper is to analyze the industry structure of banking services in Brazil in order to shed light on … designing public policy for the banking sector. In particular, retail banking is found to be less sensitive to price competition … and to exhibit considerably higher returns than corporate banking. The authors identify and discuss the factors underlying …

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Credit Risk Transfer and Contagion

Allen, Franklin; Carletti, Elena - Center for Financial Studies - 2005

with banking and insurance sectors, we show that credit risk transfer can be beneficial when banks face uniform demand for …

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Why did Czech Banks Switch From Loans in 1995?

Nilsen, Jeffrey H. - Swiss National Bank, Study Center Gerzensee - 1998

The Czech banking system is seen by many observers to be the most successful of all former socialist economies’. But … banking system. …

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The Asian Financial Crisis and Banking Reform in China and Vietnam

Gottschang, Thomas - Department of Economics and Accounting, College of the … - 2002

were protected to a great extent by the incomplete nature of their banking reforms and financial market development. The … domestic banking systems and mature financial markets should take priority over full integration with international financial …

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Government without Statistics: Policy-making in Hong Kong 1925-85, with special reference to Economic and Financial Management

Goodstadt, Leo F. - Hong Kong Institute for Monetary Research (HKIMR), … - 2006

. It demonstrates how the quality of statistics affected the management of financial markets and banking crises, and …

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Multistrategic Spatial Competition in Banking

Kim, Moshe; Lozano-Vivas, Ana; Morales, Antonio - In: International Journal of the Economics of Business 14 (2007) 3, pp. 351-366

This paper presents a model whereby banking firms use various strategies (price and non-price) simultaneously in a …

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Banking in transition economies: does foreign ownership enhance profitability?

Naaborg, Ilko; Lensink, Robert - In: The European Journal of Finance 14 (2008) 7, pp. 545-562

foreign bank ownership as well. The results are independent of countries' GDP per capita and concentration in the banking …

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Regulatory Pressure, Market Discipline, and Bank Spreads in India: An Empirical Exploration

Ghosh, Saibal - In: Global Economic Review 37 (2008) 2, pp. 227-247

Employing data on commercial banks for 1992 to 2006, the paper examines the factors influencing bank spreads in India. The findings indicate that variations in bank size, composition of loan portfolio and bank liquidity are important determinants of bank margins. Second, the evidence is strongly...

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Financial Services Integration in East Asia: Lessons from the European Union

Pasadilla, Gloria O. - Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS), … - 2008

This paper distills some policy lessons from the financial services integration program in the European Union for East Asia. Focusing on the improved cross-border facilitation of financial flows rather than on general macroeconomic factors related to optimal currency area formation, the paper...

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