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The Regulator's Trade-Off : Bank Supervision vs. Minimum Capital

Buck, Florian - 2013

We develop a simple model of banking regulation with two policy instruments: minimum capital requirements and … regulation. Therefore, countries are better off by harmonising regulation on an international standard …

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Strategic Complementarity, Fragility, and Regulation

Vives, Xavier - 2013

The paper analyzes a very stylized model of crises and demonstrates how the degree of strategic complementarity in the actions of investors is a critical determinant of fragility. It is shown how the balance sheet composition of a financial intermediary, parameters of the information structure...

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Regulatory Arbitrage and the Efficiency of Banking Regulation

Boyer, Pierre C. - 2016

We study the efficiency of banking regulation under financial integration. Banks freely choose the jurisdiction where …

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The International Organization of Production in the Regulatory Void

Herkenhoff, Philipp - 2020

international outsourcing and most strongly so for sourcing from low-regulation countries. Motivated by these findings, we introduce …

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Corruption and the Shadow Economy : An Empirical Analysis

Dreher, Axel; Schneider, Friedrich - 2021

This paper analyzes the influence of the shadow economy on corruption and vice versa. We hypothesize that corruption and shadow economy are substitutes in high income countries while they are complements in low income countries. The hypotheses are tested for a cross-section of 120 countries and...

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The Impact of Financial (De-)Regulation on Current Account Balances

Moral-Benito, Enrique - 2014

Both global imbalances and financial market (de-)regulation feature prominently among the potential causes of the … investigate the relationship between financial market regulation and current account balances, an area for which limited empirical …

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Labor Market Regulation and the Legal System

Hefeker, Carsten - 2007

When enacting labor market regulation governments face courts that interpret and implement the legal code. We show that …

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Financial Reform and Banking Crises

Shehzad, Choudhry Tanveer - 2013

We examine the impact of various dimensions of financial reform on the likelihood of systemic and non-systemic banking crises. Using new financial reform measures for a large sample of developing and developed countries for the period 1973 to 2002, our multivariate probit modeling results...

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Did Globalization Influence Credit Market Deregulation?

Eppinger, Peter S. - 2015

We investigate whether globalization influenced credit market deregulation over the period 1970-2010. Globalization is measured by the KOF indices of globalization. Credit market deregulation is measured by the credit market freedom indicators of the Fraser Institute. The results from both...

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Regulation in Swiss Cantons : Data for One Century

Luechinger, Simon - 2016

We present and illustrate novel data on more than a century of regulation in Switzerland. We provide quantitative … in the annual changes to such regulation from 1908-2013. We measure the stock of regulation by the number of enactments … in the stock of regulation and the extent and development of regulatory activity. Regulatory activity generally increased …

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