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This Selected Issues paper examines social spending reform and fiscal savings in Slovenia. Rising expenditure has been at the root of Slovenia’s fiscal deterioration since the onset of the crisis. The paper explores reform options to reduce Slovenia’s social spending over the medium and long...
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We use event study methods to compare the market reaction to U.S. and EU-wide stress tests performed from 2009 to 2013. Typically, stress tests have a positive impact on stressed banks’ returns. While the 2009 U.S. stress test had a large positive outcome, the impact of subsequent U.S....
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This Selected Issues paper presents an overview of the cross-border expansion of Moroccan banks in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). It discusses policies to minimize possible negative spillovers and address the main supervisory challenges. It builds on the analysis and main results of a Pan-African...
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debate by assessing whether compliance with international regulatory standards and protocols enchances bank operating … Bank Supervision (BCP). The relationship between bank efficiency and regulatory compliance is investigated using the (Simar … that overall BCP compliance, or indeed compliance with any of its individual chapters, has no association with bank …
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In this paper, we use a bank-level panel dataset to investigate the determinants of bank interest margins in the … extensions to assess the extent to which high spreads of banks in the CCA can be related to bank-specific variables, to … risk, bank size, bank diversification, banking sector competition, and macroeconomic policies; but the impact depends on …
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payments assistance to its members, the Bank of Slovenia agrees to lend to the Fund an SDR-denominated amount up to the …
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Eastern European exposures resulted in extraordinary policy efforts to maintain bank lending), providing fertile ground for …
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This paper explores how banking sector developments and characteristics influence the propagation of risks from the banking sector to sovereign debt, including how they affect the extent of fiscal costs of banking crises when those occur. It then proposes practices and policies for the fiscal...
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financial access faced by the low-income segments of population, this paper presents an analysis of a novel dataset on bank … the costs of maintaining a bank checking account and conducting a few basic transactions can exceed 5 percent of monthly …
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bank net interest margins. Combined with resilient asset quality, wider net interest margins supported record profits for …
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