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Bank Ownership : Trends and Implications

Cull, Robert J. - 2017

This paper presents recent trends in bank ownership across countries and summarizes the evidence regarding the implications of bank ownership structure for bank performance and competition, financial stability, and access to finance. The evidence reviewed suggests that foreign-owned banks are...

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Local Governments' Fiscal Balance, Privatization, and Banking Sector Reform in Transition Countries

Crivelli, Ernesto - 2012

liberalization, privatization, and stabilization reforms. Theory predicts that decentralization may aggravate fiscal imbalances … over 19 years to address a central question of fact: Did privatization help to promote local governments' fiscal discipline …? The answer is clearly ‘no' for privatization considered in isolation. However, privatization and subnational fiscal …

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Quantifying Structural Subsidy Values for Systemically Important Financial Institutions

Abbas, S. M. Ali - 2013

Claimants to SIFIs receive transfers when governments are forced into bailouts. Ex ante, the bailout expectation lowers daily funding costs. This funding cost differential reflects both the structural level of the government support and the time-varying market valuation for such a support. With...

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Why Did Public Banks Lend More During the Global Financial Crisis?

Bosshardt, Joshua - 2020

During the Global Financial Crisis (GFC), state-owned or public banks lent relativelymore than domestic private banks in many countries. However, data limitations havehindered a thorough assessment of what led public banks to better maintain lendingduring the GFC. Using a novel bank-level...

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Public Sector Balance Sheet Database : Overview and Guide for Compilers and Users

Alves, Miguel - 2020

This paper provides an overview of the Public Sector Balance Sheet (PSBS) Database, a dataset developed in the context of the October 2018 Fiscal Monitor. The dataset provides a comprehensive picture of public wealth for 38 countries, and a narrower picture for further 37 countries and...

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Financial Stability Analysis : What are the Data Needs?

Heath, Robert - 2017

The growing incidences of financial crises and their damage to the economy has led policy makers to sharpen the focus on financial stability analysis (FSA), crisis prevention and management over the past 10-15 years. The statistical world has reacted with a number of initiatives, but does more...

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The Transmission of Liquidity Shocks : The Role of Internal Capital Markets and Bank Funding Strategies

Karam, Philippe D. - 2014

We analyze the transmission of bank-specific liquidity shocks triggered by a credit rating downgrade through the lending channel. Using bank-level data for US Bank Holding Companies, we find that a credit rating downgrade is associated with an immediate and persistent decline in access to...

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Foreign Banks and the Vienna Initiative : Turning Sinners into Saints?

De Haas, Ralph - 2012

We use data on 1,294 banks in Central and Eastern Europe to analyze how bank ownership and creditor coordination in the form of the Vienna Initiative affected credit growth during the 2008–09 crisis. As part of the Vienna Initiative western European banks signed country-specific commitment...

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The Need for 'Un-Consolidating' Consolidated Banks' Stress Tests

Cerutti, Eugenio M. - 2013

The recent crisis has spurred the use of stress tests as a (crisis) management and early warning tool. However, a weakness is that they omit potential risks embedded in the banking groups™ geographical structures by assuming that capital and liquidity are available wherever they are needed...

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Friend or Foe? Cross-Border Linkages, Contagious Banking Crises, and 'Coordinated' Macroprudential Policies

Choi, Seung Mo - 2018

This paper examines whether the coordinated use of macroprudential policies can help lessen the incidence of banking crises. It is well-known that rapid domestic credit growth and house price growth positively influence the chances of a banking crisis. As well, a crisis in other countries with...

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