The paper casts the analysis of recent monetary developments in Europe and the future prospects for Economic and Monetary Union in historical perspective. The first part (the ‘past’) reconstructs the long march toward monetary union. The second part (the

This paper examines technical and pure technical efficiencies of ten major financial institutions in Botswana for each year during the period 2001-2006 using data envelopment analysis. In order to obtain more robust and reliable results, the sensitivity of our efficiency indices were put into...

On April 1, 2002, the Japanese government lifted a blanket guarantee of all deposits and began limiting the coverage of time deposits. This paper uses this deposit insurance reform as a natural experiment to investigate the relationship between deposit insurance coverage and market discipline. I...

China currently maintains an exchange rate fixed against the US dollar and a (relatively) closed capital account, while exercising an independent, controlled interest rate environment. Domestic and international pressures have been mounting for the Chinese government to re-adjust the currency...

This study specifically investigated the factors that influenced access by the poor and Blacks to credit in the segmented financial sector in South Africa, using income and expenditure survey data from 1995 and 2000. The study sheds light on the extent of financial sector deepening through...

This paper provides evidence on the empirical separability of input and output market imperfections. We specify a model of banking competition and simultaneously estimate bank conduct in output (loan) and input (deposit) markets. Our results suggest that firms display some degree of...

En este documento se presenta un análisis de la vulnerabilidad del sistema financiero Colombiano ante fluctuaciones en los ingresos de las empresas exportadoras a los dos principales socios comerciales, Estados Unidos y Venezuela, para el periodo comprendido entre 2004 y 2007. El análisis...

Es común en la literatura considerar el riesgo de crédito como una de las principales fuentes de inestabilidad del sistema financiero. Con el fin de evaluar la sensibilidad del riesgo de crédito ante cambios en algunas variables macroeconómicas y sus posibles efectos sobre la rentabilidad de...

En este trabajo se propone una metodología para cuantificar la centralidad de los agentes que participan en el mercado interbancario, bajo un enfoque de juegos cooperativos. La metodología utiliza diferencias de valores de Shapley en juegos de transacciones con y sin restricciones de red...

We use exogenous variation in the degree of restrictions to bank competition across Italian provinces to study both the effects of bank regulation and the impact of deregulation. We find that where entry was more restricted the cost of credit was higher and - contrary to expectations - access to...