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Development of the Commercial Banking System in Afghanistan

Charap, Joshua - 2009

Lending practices of commercial banks in Afghanistan were analyzed using CAMEL ratings. Statistically significant correlations were found: Banks with worse ratings (a) had more lending to domestic clients and (b) paid less tax. There was no statistically significant relationship between profits...

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Cooperative Banks and Financial Stability

Cihák, Martin - 2007

Cooperative banks are an important, and growing, part of many financial systems. This paper empirically analyzes the role of cooperative banks in financial stability. Contrary to some suggestions in the literature, we find that cooperative banks are more stable than commercial banks. This...

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Are More Competitive Banking Systems More Stable?.

Cihák, Martin - 2006

Intro -- Contents -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. LITERATURE REVIEW -- A. Competition and Concentration -- B. Concentration and Stability -- C. Competition and Stability -- D. Regulation, Supervision and Stability -- III. METHODOLOGY -- A. Duration Analysis -- B. Logistic Probability Analysis -- C....

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Macroprudential Policy and Bank Systemic Risk: Does Inflation Targeting Matter?

Belkhir, Mohamed - 2023

This paper investigates macroprudential policy effects on bank systemic risk and the role of inflation targeting in such effects. Using bank-level data for 45 countries comprising various monetary and exchange rate regimes, our regime-dependent dynamic panel regression results point to...

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Government Involvement in Corporate Debt Restructuring; Case Studies From the Great Recession

Grigorian, David A.; Raei, Faezeh - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2010

The paper examines recent episodes of government involvement in corporate debt restructurings. It argues that corporate debt restructuring is an important step toward recovery from a financial crisis. We then discuss the rationale for, and modalities of, the state intervention in corporate debt...

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The Late 1990's Financial Crisis in Ecuador; Institutional Weaknesses, Fiscal Rigidities, and Financial Dollarization At Work

Jácome, Luis Ignacio - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2004

This paper stresses three factors that amplified the 1990s financial crisis in Ecuador, namely institutional weaknesses, rigidities in public finances, and high financial dollarization. Institutional factors restricted the government's ability to respond in a timely manner and efficiently enough...

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Systemic Banking Crises; A New Database

Valencia, Fabian; Laeven, Luc - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2008

This paper presents a new database on the timing of systemic banking crises and policy responses to resolve them. The database covers the universe of systemic banking crises for the period 1970-2007, with detailed data on crisis containment and resolution policies for 42 crisis episodes, and...

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Indonesia; Anatomy of a Banking Crisis

Kovanen, Arto; Frécaut, Olivier; Baldwin, Barbara E.; … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2001

This study looks at the first two years of the banking crisis that erupted in Indonesia in late 1997. It finds that the banking sector was weak at the outset, and that governance problems intensified the crisis and seriously delayed its resolution. Although a strategy was put in place over the...

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Balance Sheet Strength and Bank Lending During the Global Financial Crisis

Kapan, Tümer; Minoiu, Camelia - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2013

structural liquidity positions in 2007Q2 to estimate the impact of exposure to market freezes during 2007–08 on the supply of … particular, banks that were ex-ante more dependent on market funding and had lower structural liquidity reduced the supply of …

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Capital Regulation, Liquidity Requirements and Taxation in a Dynamic Model of Banking

Nicoló, Gianni De; Gamba, Andrea; Lucchetta, Marcella - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2012

liquidity risk. We find an inverted U-shaped relationship between capital requirements and bank lending, efficiency, and welfare …, with their benefits turning into costs beyond a certain requirement threshold. By contrast, liquidity requirements reduce … lending, efficiency and welfare significantly. The costs of high capital and liquidity requirements represent a lower bound on …

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