Documents et rapports
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The quality of the legal system, firm ownership, and firm size (anglais)
Employment in developing countries is disproportionately concentrated in very small firms. The authors examine the extent to which the distribution of firm size is related to the quality of the legal system...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS3246 Date du document: 1 mars 2004 Auteur: Laeven, Luc, Woodruff, Christopher
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Does judicial efficiency lower the cost of credit: (anglais)
The authors investigate the effect of judicial efficiency on banks' lending spreads for a large cross section of countries. They measure bank interest rate spreads for 106 countries at an aggregate level...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS3159 Date du document: 1 octobre 2003 Auteur: Laeven, Luc, Majnoni, Giovanni
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What drives bank competition? some international evidence (anglais)
Using bank-level data, the authors apply the Panzar and Rosse (1987) methodology to estimate the extent to which changes in input prices are reflected in revenues earned by specific banks in 50 countries'...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS3113 Date du document: 31 août 2003 Auteur: Claessens,Constantijn A.,Laeven, Luc
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The impact of bank regulations, concentration, and institutions on bank margins (anglais)
This paper examines the impact of bank regulations, concentration, inflation, and national institutions on bank net interest margins using data from over 1,400 banks across 72 countries while controlling...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS3030 Date du document: 30 avril 2003 Auteur: Demirguc, Asli,Laeven, Luc,Levine, Ross
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Financial development, property rights, and growth (anglais)
The authors analyze how property rights affect the allocation of firms' available resources among different types of assets. In particular, they investigate empirically for a large number of countries...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS2924 Date du document: 30 novembre 2002 Auteur: Claessens,Constantijn A.,Laeven, Luc
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Financial crises, financial dependence, and industry growth (anglais)
The authors investigate the link between financial crises and industry growth. They analyze data from 19 industrial and developing countries that have experienced financial crises during the past 30 years...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS2855 Date du document: 30 juin 2002 Auteur: Laeven, Luc,Klingebiel, Daniela,Kroszner, Randy
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Loan loss provisioning and economic slowdowns : too much, too late? (anglais)
Only recently has the debate on bank capital regulation devoted specific attention to the role that bank loan loss provisions can play as part of a minimum capital regulatory framework. Several national...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS2749 Date du document: 31 décembre 2001 Auteur: Laeven, Luc,Majnoni, Giovanni
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Stock market responses to bank restructuring policies during the East Asian crisis (anglais)
The East Asian crisis began in Thailand in mid-1997 when an ailing financial sector, a slowdown in exports, and large increases in central bank credit to weak financial institutions, triggered a run on...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS2571 Date du document: 31 mars 2001 Auteur: Klingebiel, Daniela,Kroszner, Randy,Laeven, Luc