services has increased. Both banks and microfinance institutions have contributed to higher intensity. A recent study shows …

worldwide political institutions to approve a more rigorous regulation on financial institutions and predict financial crises … EU regulation on credit rating agencies and current Basel II enhancements. Finally we can determine that most regulatory …

framework that affects the regulation of every WTO Member's financial sector. However, except for a limited number of country …-specific case studies, no attempt has been made to compare WTO commitments to open the domestic banking sector to foreign banks with … available on their current regulatory regime for banking (based on the responses to a World Bank survey as discussed in Barth …

evidence suggests that the link between capital regulation and banking efficiency is not robust enough to control for other …This paper examines the impact of regulatory policies on banking market efficiency using a sample of 678 commercial …-specific variables. Data on regulation, supervision and monitoring variables, and activity restrictions are from the most recent Bank …

We integrate Basel II (and III) regulations into the industrial organization approach to banking and analyze the … interaction between capital adequacy regulation and credit risk transfer with credit default swaps (CDS) including its effect on … at a certain (potentially distorted) price. Regulation is found to induce the risk-neutral bank to behave in a more risk …

We integrate Basel II (and III) regulations into the industrial organization approach to banking and analyze the … interaction between capital adequacy regulation and credit risk transfer with credit default swaps (CDS) including its effect on … at a certain (potentially distorted) price. Regulation is found to induce the risk-neutral bank to behave in a more risk …

the monetary policy and financial regulation and supervision perspectives. In the preceding SUERF Study (2013/2), the …