efforts to supervise and guarantee bank solvency. African depositors face high costs for mitigating the loss exposures that …

macroeconomic and bank regulatory reform. Bank regulatory policy promoted privatization, financial liberalization, and free entry …. Argentina's bank regulatory system now is widely regarded as one of the two or three most successful among emerging market …

their investors. We show the bank has to have a fragile capital structure, subject to bank runs, in order to perform these … functions. Far from being an aberration to be regulated away, the funding of illiquid loans by a bank with volatile demand … such as narrow banking and bank capital requirements …

This paper looks at why bank consolidation has been taking place in the United States and what the structure of the … banking industry might look like in the future. It then discusses the implications of bank consolidation for the economy and …

-Steagall Act forced the banks to leave the securities business: as an internal securities department within the bank and as a … lending and underwriting were closely combined in the departmental structure. We find evidence that bank managers during this … effectiveness of a firm. They also suggest that bank regulators' interest in 'firewalls' between commercial and investment banking …

This paper suggests that the introduction of bank branching restrictions and federal deposit insurance in the United …