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Capital requirements and bank behavior: the impact of the Basle accord

Patricia Jackson

BANK  FOR  INTERNATIONAL  SETTLEMENTS
Basle, Switzerland

BASLE  COMMITTEE  ON  BANKING  SUPERVISION WORKING  PAPERS
No.  1  –  April  1999

Summary:

The paper reviews the empirical evidence on the impact of the 1998 Basle Accord. It focuses on whether the adoption of fixed minimum capital requirements led some banks to maintain higher capital ratios than would otherwise have been the case and whether any increase in ratios was achieved by increasing capital or reducing

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Financial Crises: Characteristics and Indicators of Vulnerability

Intenational Monrtary Fund
1998.

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The financial crises that erupted in east Asia in the second half of 1997 are the latest in a series of such episodes that have been experienced by economies in various regions of the world in recent years. In the 1990s, currency crises have occurred in Europe (the 1992–93 crises in the European Monetary System’s
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Core Principles for Effective Banking Supervision

Basle Committee on Banking Supervision
September 1997
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What’ s Wrong with Romanian Rural Finance?Understanding the Determinants of Private Farmers’ Access to Credit

Junior R. Davis,
Angela Gaburici
and Paul G. Hare
Center for Economic Reform and Transformation, Heriot-Watt University, UK,
Economic Forecasting Institute, Bucharest, Romania,
June 1998

Summary:
This analysis of the determinants of private farmer access to rural finance in Romania ha two distinct aspects: (i) a quantitative evaluation of some measurable variables for example factors affecting the amount of loans and the volume of savings; and (ii) a qualitative aspect concentrating on the relationship
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Bangladesh Bank Order 1972

(President’s Order No. 127 of 1972)

Incorporating all amendments thereto upto March 10, 2003

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