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  The evolution of central banking

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995

  What have we learned about central banks? The principal factors affecting central bank autonomy in the past two centuries have been prevailing political conditions, a laissez faire environment, and the exchange rate regime (whether fixed or floating).Institutions we know as central banks emerged or were established as commercial banks or government banks.
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  Universal banking and the financing of industrial development

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995

  Developing countries designing financial systems should take a lesson from U.S.
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  Regulation and bank stability : Canada and the United States, 1870 - 1980

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995

  Three lessons for developing and transition economies from a historical comparison of U.S. and Canadian banking. First, restricting nationwide branch banking is a mistake. Second, the benefits of long run stability and efficiency outweigh the cost of concentrated economic power.
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  Inflation, growth and central banks : theory and evidence

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1996

  Inflation limits economic growth by reducing the efficiency of investment rather than its level.
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  Bank regulation : the case of the missing model

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1996

  The success of financial reform and the stability of financial systems depend partly on a regulatory framework that rewards prudent risk taking and is attuned to both institutions and the structure of the economy.
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  Liquidity, banks, and markets : effects of financial development on banks and the maturity of financial claims

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1996

  The amount of liquidity that banks offer depends on the degree of direct participation in financial markets --- that is, on the liquidity of financial markets. Conversely, banks influence the amount of liquidity offered by financial markets.Financial markets and financial institutions compete to provide investors with liquidity.
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  The Latvian banking crisis : lessons learned

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1996

  In the spring of 1995, Latvia experienced the largest banking crisis in the former Soviet Union to date, involving the loss of about 40 percent of the banking system's assets and liabilities. Fleming and Talley outline the Latvian authorities' strategy for developing the banking system and identify how and why it unraveled.
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  The Baltics : banking crises observed

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1996

  Lessons learned from banking crises in three Baltic republics crises that all developed in the context of simultaneous transition and adjustment, putting tremendous strain on banks and their enterprise borrowers.Fleming, Chu, and Bakker compare the banking crises experienced in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, examining the causes, effects, and policy responses.The starting point for the thr
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  Banking reform in transition - countries

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1996

  The institutional capacity of banks in transition economies improves faster when a new or parallel private banking system is allowed to emerge than it does when the government tries simply to reform existing state-owned banks.
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  Regulating market risk in banks : a comparison of alternative regulatory regimes

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1996

  Market risk is an increasingly important issue for banks and so for bank regulation. Stephanou compares three approaches to setting risk based capital adequacy standards: the building bloc approach, the internal models approach, and the precommitment approach. Regulators have traditionally used simple models to measure banks' capital adequacy.

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