The macroeconomic implications of the new banking capital regulation in emerging markets: a duopoly model adapted to risk-averse banks.
Resumen. Con el propósito de analizar el impacto de la nueva regulación de capital de bancos (Basilea II) sobre el ciclo de una economía emergente, desarrolló un modelo de duopolio compuesto por bancos locales y extranjeros. Teniendo en cuenta esta nueva regulación, los principales resultados son: la evaluación del...

Australia's Money Mandarins: The Reserve Bank and the Politics of Money.
Australia's Money Mandarins: The Reserve Bank and the Politics of Money Stephen Bell Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2004 $59.95 In September 1999, The Economist began a survey of the world economy on a cautionary note: 'Central banks are now more powerful than ever before. They should enjoy...

Effects of collateral pledges in reducing credit risks - confronting banks in jordan, as lending institutions.
INTRODUCTION This study aims at examining the effects of collaterals pledges in reducing credit risks confronting banks in Jordan, and to test the study's hypotheses in this regard. The study consists of dependent variables which represent credit risks confronting banks when granting loans, credit facilities; and independent...

Entry barriers and evolution of banking systems: lessons from the 1980s Canadian western bank failures.
Public policy for financial institutions faces the challenge of reconciling competing interests: banks have an interest in promoting whatever allows them to pursue the most profitable strategies in order to satisfy their shareholders, while public policy often represents the reconciliation of conflicting goals (e.g., bank shareholders versus economic development,...

Central banks and payment instruments: a serious case of schizophrenia.
Abstract: This article analyses the competition between cash and payment cards against the backdrop of the dual role of central banks--as issuers of cash and as institutions with a mandate to foster the efficiency of payment systems in general. It is argued that this dual role results in a...

An analysis of credit scoring for agricultural loans in Thailand.
Abstract: Loan contracts performance determines the profitability and stability of the financial institutions and screening the loan applications is a key process in minimizing credit risk. Before making any credit decisions, credit analysis (the assessment of the financial history and financial backgrounds of the borrowers) should be completed as...

Banking laws in China.
9789041125194 Banking laws in China. Zhou, Zhongfei. Kluwer Law International 2007 255 pages $150.00 Hardcover International banking and finance law series; v.5 KNQ940 Zhou (law, Shanghai U. of Finance...

Insuring Canada's exports: the case for reform at export development Canada.
The Study in Brief With Parliamentary review of the Export Development Act due in 2008, the federal government should seize the opportunity to streamline the operations and priorities of Export Development Canada (EDC). Straightforward economic reasoning and ongoing developments in the global financial services industry call into...

Navigating the path of least resistance: financial deregulation and the origins of the Japanese crisis.
This article reexamines the period of the Japanese bubble (1985-1990) and emphasizes ill-supervised and ill-sequenced financial deregulation as a key proximate factor. Given the subsequent costs of this political choice, what explains such a path of domestic financial deregulation without the establishment of corresponding supervisory institutions? I argue that...

Depoliticizing financial regulation.
Over the past few decades, scholars have called into question the ability of regulatory agencies to function effectively in furtherance of the public interest.(1) Since midcentury, they have amassed convincing evidence that agencies can be captured through, for example, "iron triangles" between Congress, agencies and those supposedly regulated.(2) More...