The Regulation and Supervision of Banks around the World : A New Database

International consultants on bank regulation, and supervision for developing countries, often base their advice on how their home country does things, for lack of information on practice in other countries. Recommendations for reform have tended to...

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Main Authors: Barth, James R., Caprio, Gerard, Levine, Ross
Format: Policy Research Working Paper
Language:English
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Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2014
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spelling okr-10986-196642021-04-23T14:03:43Z The Regulation and Supervision of Banks around the World : A New Database Barth, James R. Caprio, Gerard Levine, Ross AUDITING AUDITS BALANCE SHEET BANK ASSETS BANK OF SPAIN BANK PERFORMANCE BANK REGULATION BANK RESTRUCTURING BANK RISK BANK SOLVENCY BANK STRUCTURE BANK SUPERVISION BANKING CRISIS BANKING INDUSTRY BANKING LAW BANKING LAWS BANKING SUPERVISION BANKING SYSTEM BANKING SYSTEMS BANKS BENCHMARKING CAPITAL REQUIREMENT CAPITAL REQUIREMENTS CENTRAL BANK CHECKING COMMERCIAL BANKS CONSOLIDATION DEPOSIT INSURANCE DEPOSIT INSURANCE SCHEMES DEPOSITORS DEPOSITS DIVIDENDS ECONOMIC OUTCOMES ECONOMICS EMERGING MARKETS EQUITY CAPITAL EXTERNAL AUDITORS FINANCIAL INFORMATION FINANCIAL REGULATION FINANCIAL SECTOR FINANCIAL SERVICES FINANCIAL STABILITY FOREIGN BANKS FOREIGN EXCHANGE GDP GUIDELINES INSOLVENCY INSURANCE ACTIVITIES INTERNATIONAL BANKS LAWS LIQUIDITY LOAN CLASSIFICATION MARGINAL COST MARKET FORCES MARKET RISK MARKET VALUE MUTUAL FUND NEW ENTRANTS OFFSHORE BANKING ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE PORTFOLIOS PRUDENTIAL REGULATIONS RATING AGENCIES REORGANIZATION SAVINGS SECURITIES SECURITIES UNDERWRITING SHAREHOLDERS SUBSIDIARIES SUPERVISORY AGENCIES SUPERVISORY AUTHORITIES SUPERVISORY FRAMEWORK SUPERVISORY REGIMES International consultants on bank regulation, and supervision for developing countries, often base their advice on how their home country does things, for lack of information on practice in other countries. Recommendations for reform have tended to be shaped by bias rather than facts. To better inform advice about bank regulation, and supervision, and to lower the marginal cost of empirical research, the authors present, and discuss a new, and comprehensive database on the regulation, and supervision of banks in a hundred and seven countries. The data, based on surveys sent to national bank regulatory, supervisory authorities, are now available to researchers, and policymakers around the world. The data cover such aspects of banking as entry requirements, ownership restrictions, capital requirements, activity restrictions, external auditing requirements, characteristics of deposit insurance schemes, loan classification and provisioning requirements, accounting and disclosure requirements, troubled bank resolution actions, and (uniquely) the quality of supervisory personnel, and their actions. The database permits users to learn how banks are currently regulated, and supervised, and about bank structures, and deposit insurance schemes, for a broad cross-section of countries. In addition to describing the data, the authors show how variables ay be grouped, and aggregated. They also show some simple correlations among selected variables. In a comparison paper ("Bank regulation and supervision: What works best") studying the relationship between differences in bank regulation and supervision, and bank performance and stability, they conclude that: 1) Countries with policies that promote private monitoring of banks, have better bank performance, and more stability. Countries with more generous deposit insurance schemes tend to have poorer bank performance, and more bank fragility. 2) Diversification of income streams, and loan portfolios - by not restricting bank activities - also tends to improve performance, and stability. (This works best when an active securities market exists). Countries in which banks are encouraged to diversify their portfolios, domestically and internationally, suffer fewer crisis. 2014-08-26T14:58:40Z 2014-08-26T14:58:40Z 2001-04 http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2001/04/1121223/regulation-supervision-banks-around-world-new-database http://hdl.handle.net/10986/19664 English en_US Policy Research Working Paper;No. 2588 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Publications & Research
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topic AUDITING
AUDITS
BALANCE SHEET
BANK ASSETS
BANK OF SPAIN
BANK PERFORMANCE
BANK REGULATION
BANK RESTRUCTURING
BANK RISK
BANK SOLVENCY
BANK STRUCTURE
BANK SUPERVISION
BANKING CRISIS
BANKING INDUSTRY
BANKING LAW
BANKING LAWS
BANKING SUPERVISION
BANKING SYSTEM
BANKING SYSTEMS
BANKS
BENCHMARKING
CAPITAL REQUIREMENT
CAPITAL REQUIREMENTS
CENTRAL BANK
CHECKING
COMMERCIAL BANKS
CONSOLIDATION
DEPOSIT INSURANCE
DEPOSIT INSURANCE SCHEMES
DEPOSITORS
DEPOSITS
DIVIDENDS
ECONOMIC OUTCOMES
ECONOMICS
EMERGING MARKETS
EQUITY CAPITAL
EXTERNAL AUDITORS
FINANCIAL INFORMATION
FINANCIAL REGULATION
FINANCIAL SECTOR
FINANCIAL SERVICES
FINANCIAL STABILITY
FOREIGN BANKS
FOREIGN EXCHANGE
GDP
GUIDELINES
INSOLVENCY
INSURANCE ACTIVITIES
INTERNATIONAL BANKS
LAWS
LIQUIDITY
LOAN CLASSIFICATION
MARGINAL COST
MARKET FORCES
MARKET RISK
MARKET VALUE
MUTUAL FUND
NEW ENTRANTS
OFFSHORE BANKING
ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE
PORTFOLIOS
PRUDENTIAL REGULATIONS
RATING AGENCIES
REORGANIZATION
SAVINGS
SECURITIES
SECURITIES UNDERWRITING
SHAREHOLDERS
SUBSIDIARIES
SUPERVISORY AGENCIES
SUPERVISORY AUTHORITIES
SUPERVISORY FRAMEWORK
SUPERVISORY REGIMES
spellingShingle AUDITING
AUDITS
BALANCE SHEET
BANK ASSETS
BANK OF SPAIN
BANK PERFORMANCE
BANK REGULATION
BANK RESTRUCTURING
BANK RISK
BANK SOLVENCY
BANK STRUCTURE
BANK SUPERVISION
BANKING CRISIS
BANKING INDUSTRY
BANKING LAW
BANKING LAWS
BANKING SUPERVISION
BANKING SYSTEM
BANKING SYSTEMS
BANKS
BENCHMARKING
CAPITAL REQUIREMENT
CAPITAL REQUIREMENTS
CENTRAL BANK
CHECKING
COMMERCIAL BANKS
CONSOLIDATION
DEPOSIT INSURANCE
DEPOSIT INSURANCE SCHEMES
DEPOSITORS
DEPOSITS
DIVIDENDS
ECONOMIC OUTCOMES
ECONOMICS
EMERGING MARKETS
EQUITY CAPITAL
EXTERNAL AUDITORS
FINANCIAL INFORMATION
FINANCIAL REGULATION
FINANCIAL SECTOR
FINANCIAL SERVICES
FINANCIAL STABILITY
FOREIGN BANKS
FOREIGN EXCHANGE
GDP
GUIDELINES
INSOLVENCY
INSURANCE ACTIVITIES
INTERNATIONAL BANKS
LAWS
LIQUIDITY
LOAN CLASSIFICATION
MARGINAL COST
MARKET FORCES
MARKET RISK
MARKET VALUE
MUTUAL FUND
NEW ENTRANTS
OFFSHORE BANKING
ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE
PORTFOLIOS
PRUDENTIAL REGULATIONS
RATING AGENCIES
REORGANIZATION
SAVINGS
SECURITIES
SECURITIES UNDERWRITING
SHAREHOLDERS
SUBSIDIARIES
SUPERVISORY AGENCIES
SUPERVISORY AUTHORITIES
SUPERVISORY FRAMEWORK
SUPERVISORY REGIMES
Barth, James R.
Caprio, Gerard
Levine, Ross
The Regulation and Supervision of Banks around the World : A New Database
relation Policy Research Working Paper;No. 2588
description International consultants on bank regulation, and supervision for developing countries, often base their advice on how their home country does things, for lack of information on practice in other countries. Recommendations for reform have tended to be shaped by bias rather than facts. To better inform advice about bank regulation, and supervision, and to lower the marginal cost of empirical research, the authors present, and discuss a new, and comprehensive database on the regulation, and supervision of banks in a hundred and seven countries. The data, based on surveys sent to national bank regulatory, supervisory authorities, are now available to researchers, and policymakers around the world. The data cover such aspects of banking as entry requirements, ownership restrictions, capital requirements, activity restrictions, external auditing requirements, characteristics of deposit insurance schemes, loan classification and provisioning requirements, accounting and disclosure requirements, troubled bank resolution actions, and (uniquely) the quality of supervisory personnel, and their actions. The database permits users to learn how banks are currently regulated, and supervised, and about bank structures, and deposit insurance schemes, for a broad cross-section of countries. In addition to describing the data, the authors show how variables ay be grouped, and aggregated. They also show some simple correlations among selected variables. In a comparison paper ("Bank regulation and supervision: What works best") studying the relationship between differences in bank regulation and supervision, and bank performance and stability, they conclude that: 1) Countries with policies that promote private monitoring of banks, have better bank performance, and more stability. Countries with more generous deposit insurance schemes tend to have poorer bank performance, and more bank fragility. 2) Diversification of income streams, and loan portfolios - by not restricting bank activities - also tends to improve performance, and stability. (This works best when an active securities market exists). Countries in which banks are encouraged to diversify their portfolios, domestically and internationally, suffer fewer crisis.
format Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper
author Barth, James R.
Caprio, Gerard
Levine, Ross
author_facet Barth, James R.
Caprio, Gerard
Levine, Ross
author_sort Barth, James R.
title The Regulation and Supervision of Banks around the World : A New Database
title_short The Regulation and Supervision of Banks around the World : A New Database
title_full The Regulation and Supervision of Banks around the World : A New Database
title_fullStr The Regulation and Supervision of Banks around the World : A New Database
title_full_unstemmed The Regulation and Supervision of Banks around the World : A New Database
title_sort regulation and supervision of banks around the world : a new database
publisher World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate 2014
url http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2001/04/1121223/regulation-supervision-banks-around-world-new-database
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/19664
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