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This paper provides a comprehensive, global database of deposit insurance arrangements as of 2013. We extend our earlier dataset by including recent a...
The paper studies the factors associated with the emergence of systemic banking crises in a large sample of developed and developing countries in 1980...
A Survey
A rapidly growing empirical literature is studying the causes and consequences of bank fragility in present-day economies. The paper reviews the two b...
Compliance with Basel Core Principles and Bank Soundness
"This paper studies whether compliance with the Basel Core Principles for Effective Banking Supervision (BCP) improves bank soundness. BCP compliance ...
October 1996 The findings suggest that across very different financial systems, financial markets and intermediaries have a comparative advantage in f...
The Role of Institutions
Using a firm-level survey database covering 48 countries, Beck, Demirguuml;ccedil;-Kunt, and Maksimovic investigate whether differences in financial a...
A study of 53 countries during 1980-95 finds that financial liberalization increases the probability of a banking crisis, but less so where the instit...
Evidence from Developing and Developed Countries
An Empirical Analysis of Banking Systems in Distress
Using aggregate and bank level data for several countries, the paper studies what happens to the banking system in the aftermath of a banking crisis. ...
Financial Inclusion, Digital Payments, and Resilience in the Age of COVID-19
The fourth edition of the Global Findex offers a lens into how people accessed and used financial services during the COVID-19 pandemic, when mobility...
Lessons From the Financial Crisis
Using a multi-country panel of banks, we study whether better capitalized banks experienced higher stock returns during the financial crisis. We diffe...
Does Compliance Matter?
This paper studies whether compliance with the Basel Core Principles for effective banking supervision (BCPs) is associated with bank soundness. Using...
For countries with underdeveloped financial systems, a move toward a more developed financial system reduces bank margins and profitability. Controlli...
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Evidence from Industrial and Developing Countries
Vulnerability to crises in the banking sector appears to be associated with these factors: a weak macroeconomic environment characterized by slow GDP ...
A Multivariate Logit Approach
This paper explores how a multivariate logit empirical model of banking crisis probabilities can be used to monitor banking sector fragility. The prop...
Where Does it Work?
Developing countries should first address weaknesses in their informational and supervisory environments before adopting explicit deposit insurance.Ex...
The authors investigate the determinants of firm innovation in over 19,000 firms across 47 developing economies. They define the innovation process br...
Does Size Matter?
September 1997 Vulnerability to crises in the banking sector appears to be associated with these factors: a weak macroeconomic environment characteriz...
Explicit deposit insurance tends to be detrimental to bank stability - the more so where bank interest rates are deregulated and the institutional env...
Measuring Financial Inclusion and Opportunities to Expand Access to and Use of Financial Services
The Global Findex database is the world's most comprehensive set of data on how people make payments, save money, borrow and manage risk. Launched in ...
Some International Evidence
Differences in interest m ......
Policies and Pitfalls in Expanding Access
Cross-Country Comparisons
Financial systems tend to ......
Information from 209 banks in 62 countries is used to develop new indicators of barriers to banking services around the world, show their correlation ...
An International Comparison
In this paper we focus on two issues. First, we examine whether firms in a thirty country sample finance long-term and short-term investment similarly...
This paper studies whether compliance with the Basel Core Principles for Effective Banking Supervision (BCP) improves bank soundness. BCP compliance a...
It is difficult to design and implement an effective safety net for banks, because overgenerous protection of banks may introduce a risk-enhancing mor...
May 1995 The three most developed stock markets are in Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States, and the most underdeveloped markets are in Co...
Theory and Evidence
(April 1997) It appears that firms grow faster and are more productive when more long-term finance is available to them. Government subsidies do not p...
This study analyzes panel data for 61 countries during 1980–97 and concludes that explicit deposit insurance tends to be detrimental to bank stabili...
An Empirical Analysis of Banking System in Distress
Cross-Country Evidence
Beck, Demirguc-Kunt, and Levine explore the relationship between the relative size of the small and medium enterprise (SME) sector, economic growth, a...
This paper examines the impact of bank regulations, concentration, inflation, and national institutions on bank net interest margins using data from o...
June 1995 Costa Rica's demographic structure is becoming increasingly unfavorable, and its pension system is maturing, so reform of the social securit...
Does the entry of foreign banks make domestic banks more competitive? This study shows that, in developing countries, increasing the number (even more...
Enduring Subsidy and Modest Profit