A detailed assessment report on the observance of China’s compliance of Basel Core Principles for effective banking … supervision is presented. Regulation and supervision of China’s banking system has made impressive progress in the past few … years, led by an activist, forward-looking regulator, the China Banking Regulatory Commission, with a clear safety and …

liquidity risk. We find an inverted U-shaped relationship between capital requirements and bank lending, efficiency, and welfare … lending, efficiency and welfare significantly. The costs of high capital and liquidity requirements represent a lower bound on …

investment decisions. The theory presented explains why traditional banking predominates in the early stages of economic … architecture and real capital accumulation, taking into account financial-sector special interests. It shows that a more developed … infrastructure promotes financial market growth, reduces the scope of traditional banking, and helps investors make more efficient …

-important-to-fail problem. It is argued that while the more radical of these proposals such as narrow utility banking do not adequately address …

earnings at wholesale banks in Japan with a reduction in the franchise value of wholesale banking. In contrast with the … conventional view that relates the franchise value of banking to informational advantages over other lenders, this paper argues … value. The paper also analyzes recent proposals for banking reform and assesses their relevance for dealing with the …

financial debates and research. Narrow banking would prevent deposit-issuing banks from lending to the private sector and … restrict nonbank intermediaries from funding investments with demand deposits. Proponents of narrow banking defend it as a step … narrow banking with contemporary banking theories, and evaluates the potential consequences of narrow banking on finance and …