Funding Advantage and Market Discipline in the Canadian Banking Sector

We employ a comprehensive data set and a variety of methods to provide evidence on the magnitude of large banks' funding advantage in Canada, and on the extent to which market discipline exists across different securities issued by the Canadian banks. The banking sector in Canada provides a unique setting in which to examine market discipline along with the prospects of proposed reforms, because Canada has no history of government bailouts. Our results suggest that large banks likely have a funding advantage over small banks after controlling for bank-specific and market risk factors. Working with hand-collected market data on debt issues by large banks, we also find that market discipline exists for subordinated debt and not for senior debt

Reaching out: Access to and use of banking services across countries [Dataset]

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Banking services for everyone? Barriers to bank access and use around the world [Dataset]

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Reaching out: Access to and use of banking services across countries [Dataset]

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Reaching out: Access to and use of banking services across countries [Dataset]

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Impact of Central Bank Intervention during Periods of Speculative Pressure: Evidence from the European Monetary System

This paper studies the effects of Banco de España and Banque de France interventions during the 1992-93 European Monetary System crises. In particular, a Markov Switching model is estimated where interventions influence the probabilities of transition between a calm and a turbulent regime. Furthermore, we analyze the impact of intervention on the expected rate of realignment. On balance, the results are consistent with the view that publicly known interventions but not secret interventions increased both the probability of switching to the turbulent regime as well as the expected realignment rate. Copyright Verein für Socialpolitik and Blackwell Publishing Ltd. 2007.