supervisory implementation, making use of data from IMF-World Bank assessments of compliance with international standards and …

-TAKING INSTITUTIONS -- IV. CREDIT RISK AND BANK LENDING DECISIONS -- V. CONCLUSIONS AND ISSUES GOING FORWARD: CREATING THE INCENTIVES AND …

bank interest margins in that region using bank and country-level data from 85 countries, including 14 Latin American … intermediation, such as inflation and bank profit taxation. …

This study examines the recent marked slowdown in bank credit to the private sector in Latin America. Based on the …, changes in bank balance sheets are examined to determine whether the credit slowdown is merely a reflection of a slowdown in … bank deposits, or whether the asset side has changed. Third, following an econometric disequilibrium approach used in …

Mercosur? The objective of this paper is to answer this question by analyzing changes in bank behavior after crises in the … literature-to post-crisis bank behavior. Using a panel dataset of commercial banks during the period 1990-2006, we analyze the … impact of crises on four sets of financial indicators of bank behavior-profitability, maturity preference …

identified late, solutions are much more costly. Until recently, Europe has seen only a small number of outright bank failures …, which made the estimation of early warning models for bank supervision very difficult. This paper presents a unique database … of individual bank distress across the European Union from mid-1990s to 2008. Using this data set, we analyze the causes …

Intro -- Contents -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. SUSCEPTIBILITY OF BANKING REGULATION TO CAPTURE -- III. A MODEL OF BANK …

of the new bank taxes—in terms of their tax base, rate, duration, and burden. The paper discusses several trade-offs in … the design of bank taxes and argues that an alternative or complementary policy response to temporarily high bank profits … is to lock them in as usable bank capital, for example through an increase in countercyclical capital buffer rates …

indices; second, which bank-specific characteristics explain these risk exposures; third, are there clusters of banks with … analysis of bank-to-bank linkages suggests that any 'globalization' of the euro area crisis is likely to be channelled through …