Policy Guidance and Compliance: The World Bank Operational Standards

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We find that banks adjust their liquidity ratios upward in response to negative shocks to their risk-weighted regulatory capital ratios, but we find no similar

The tail of the loss distribution (a Pareto distribution without expectation whose characteristic exponent is 0.95 ? alpha ? 1) shows that this bank can fear extreme operational

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While we will further demonstrate that this negligible overall effect hides substantial heterogeneity across types of banks, our main finding is that macroprudential

Abstract: We use a disequilibrium model to estimate credit rationing to Small and Medium- sized Enterprises on the Tunisian bank credit market.. Based on a panel dataset of 1,275 SMEs

It appears from figure 4.4 that on average during the time period under examination bank lending shocks cause credit to be allocated relatively more to firms with better credit

The present paper assesses the sensitivity of the global MPI in terms of simple levels of the headcount ratio, 4 its implied subnational rankings, and poverty sets with respect to