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The paper assesses the degree of banking competition and efficiency in Italy?over time as well as compared to that in … other countries, such as France, Germany, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The paper finds competition in …. The degree of competition falls within the range of estimates for a set of comparator countries. Greater contestability …
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Conventional wisdom postulates that there are benefits from decentralizing government finances but there is little empirical evidence about actual country practices. This paper presents data on fiscal decentralization for about 80 countries over a period of about 20 years (1990-2008) from the...
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has been accompanied by the liberalization in the financial system and the openness to domestic and foreign competition …
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This technical note analyzes the competition in the banking sector in Denmark. It reveals that Denmark has a fairly …
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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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This paper describes the situation of bank distress which developed in Bangladesh since 1983-84. Since the key problem …
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intervention and careful management at both the strategic and individual bank levels. This paper highlights the range of …
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Systemic bank restructing aims to improve bank performance - that is, restore solvency and profitability, improve the …
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It is widely perceived that competition in the Indian banking sector has increased since the inception of the financial … competitive conditions and earns revenues as if under monopolistic competition …
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