Xin Chen provided extraordinary research assistance. We received helpful comments from (2007)
James R. Barth, Gerard Caprio, Ross Levine, Asli Demirguc-kunt, Simeon Djankov, Patrick Honohan, ...
the help of Iffath Sharif and Cindy Lee, as well as financial support from the World Bank.
Bank regulation and supervision: what works best (2003)
James R. Barth, Gerard Caprio, Ross Levine, Jel Classification, Asli Demirgüç-kunt, Simeon Djankov, ...
the help of Iffath Sharif and Cindy Lee, as well as financial support from the World Bank. Xin Chen provided extraordinary research assistance. We received helpful comments from
Bank regulation and supervision: what works best (2003)
James R. Barth, Gerard Caprio, Ross Levine, Jel Classification, Asli Demirgüç-kunt, Simeon Djankov, ...
the help of Iffath Sharif and Cindy Lee, as well as financial support from the World Bank. Xin Chen provided extraordinary research assistance. We received helpful comments from
The Regulation and Supervision of Banks around the World: A New Database (2001)
Barth, James R., Caprio, Gerard., Levine, Ross.
Brookings-Wharton Papers on Financial Services - 2001
2001b). “The Regulation and Supervision of Bank Around the World: A New Database (2001)
Kaufman and other participants at the January 2001 Brookings-Wharton Papers on Financial Services, 4 th Annual Conference, "Integrating Emerging Market Countries Into Global Financial...
THE NEED TO REFORM THE FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE SYSTEM (1991)
BARTH, JAMES R., HUDSON, CARL D., PAGE, DANIEL E.
The biggest financial disaster in modern history struck the savings and loan industry during the 1980s. This paper argues that the unifying cause of this debacle was the way in which the federal...
INSOLVENCY AND RISK-TAKING IN THE THRIFT INDUSTRY: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE FUTURE (1985)
BARTH, JAMES R., BRUMBAUG, R. DAN, SAUERHAFT, DANIEL, WANG, GEORGE H. K.
This paper puts the current problems facing the thrift industry, Federal Home Loan Bank Board, and Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation into historical perspective. It discusses the...
DO FEDERAL DEFICITS REALLY MATTER? (1984)
BARTH, JAMES R., IDEN, GEORGE, RUSSEK, FRANK S.
This paper reviews competing views regarding interest rates and other economic effects of federal deficits. It discusses the findings of several empirical studies that have analyzed these...
AN ANALYSIS OF INFORMATIONAL RESTRICTIONS ON THE LENDING DECISIONS OF FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS (1983)
BARTH, JAMES R., CORDES, JOSEPH J., YEZER, ANTHONY M. J.
Lenders are assumed to use formal credit scoring schemes in order to evaluate borrower credit worthiness. Variables used in these schemer may be measured with error resulting in credit scorer which...
Risk-Taking in the Texas S&L Industry: Charter and Ownership Effects.
Barth, James R, Hudson, Carl D
This paper attempts to identify some of the factors that help explain the losses experienced by S&Ls during the 1980s. Texas institutions are the focus of this study because they account for over...
Financial regulation and performance : cross-country evidence
Barth, James R., Caprio Jr., Gerard, Levine, Ross
Costly bank failures in the past two decades have focused attention on the need to find ways to improve the performance of different countries'financial systems. Belief is overwhelming that financial...
The regulation and supervision of banks around the world - a new database
Barth, James R., Caprio Jr, Gerard, Levine, Ross
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...
Financial Regulation And Performance: Cross-Country Evidence
James R. Barth, Gerard Caprio Jr., Ross Levine
This paper examines three questions. First, do countries with relatively weak government/ bureaucratic systems impose harsher regulatory restrictions on activities of banks? Second, do countries with...
James R. Barth, R. Dan Brumbaugh Jr.
Barth and Brumbaugh propose a series of reforms aimed at making bank regulations compatible with the changing financial system. They present evidence to support their contention that change in the...
Policy Watch: The Repeal of Glass-Steagall and the Advent of Broad Banking
James R. Barth, R. Dan Brumbaugh Jr., James A. Wilcox
Enactment of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA) in November 1999 effectively repealed the long-standing prohibitions on the mixing of banking with securities or insurance businesses and thus permits...
Determinants of U.S. commercial bank performance: regulatory and econometric issues
Banks and banking
Stumbling blocks to entrepreneurship in low-and-moderate income communities
James R. Barth, Glenn Yago, Betsy Zeidman
Community development
Banking systems around the globe : do regulation and ownership affect the performance and stability?
Barth, James R., Caprio, Gerard, Levine, Ross
The authors report cross-country data on commercial bank regulation and ownership in more than 60 countries. They evaluate the links between different regulatory/ownership practices in those...
Bank regulation and supervision : what works best?
Barth, James R., Caprio Jr., Gerard, Levine, Ross
The authors draw on their new database on bank regulation and supervision in 107 countries to assess different governmental approaches to bank regulation and supervision and evaluate the efficacy of...
Pitfalls in Using Market Prices to Assess the Financial Condition of Depository Institutions.
Barth, James R, Page, Daniel E
In this article the authors examine the information that stock prices provide about the financial condition of federally insured thrift institutions. In order to assess their financial condition from...
Determinants of Thrift Institution Resolution Costs.
Barth, James R, Bartholomew, Philip F, Bradley, Michael
This paper provides a detailed examination of the cost imposed by thrift institutions resolved during the period 1980-88. A simple model is presented to explain the cost of resolution. This model is...
Bank Safety and Soundness and the Structure of Bank Supervision: A Cross-Country Analysis
James R. Barth, Luis G. Dopico, Daniel E. Nolle, James A. Wilcox
Thrift institution failures: causes and policy issues
James R. Barth, R. Dan Brumbaugh, Daniel Sauerhaft
Savings and loan associations
Moral hazard and the thrift crisis: an analysis of 1988 resolution
James R. Barth, Philip F. Bartholomew, Carol J. Labich
Savings and loan associations ; Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation
Post-FIRREA: the need to reform the Federal Deposit Insurance System
Savings and loan associations ; Deposit insurance ; Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery, Enforcement Act of 1989
Thrift deregulation and federal deposit insurance
James R. Barth, Michael G. Bradley
Deposit insurance ; Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation ; Thrift institutions ; Savings and loan associations
The Need to Reform the Federal Deposit Insurance System.
Barth, James R, Hudson, Carl D, Page, Daniel E
The biggest financial disaster in modern history struck the savings and loan industry during the 1980s. This paper argues that the unifying cause of this debacle was the way in which the federal...
A Cross-Country Assessment of Bank Risk-Shifting Behavior
James R. Barth, Mark Bertus, Jiang Hai, Triphon Phumiwasana
Banks are important for mobilizing savings and then channeling those funds to productive investment projects. While providing these and other services that contribute to economic growth and...
Bank regulations are changing : for better or worse ?
This paper presents new and official survey information on bank regulations in 142 countries and makes comparisons with two earlier surveys. The data do not suggest that countries have primarily...
Bank Regulation and Supervision: What Works Best?
James R. Barth, Gerard Caprio, Jr., Ross Levine
This paper uses our new database on bank regulation and supervision in 107 countries to assess the relationship between specific regulatory and supervisory practices and banking-sector development,...
Bank Regulations are Changing: For Better or Worse?
James R Barth, Gerard Caprio, Ross Levine
This paper presents new and official survey information on bank regulations in 142 countries and makes comparisons with two earlier surveys. The data do not suggest that countries have primarily...
CHOOSING THE RIGHT FINANCIAL SYSTEM FOR GROWTH
James R. Barth, Daniel E. Nolle, Hilton L. Root, Glenn Yago
Well-functioning financial systems promote economic growth by channeling funds from those who save to those who invest in the productive capacity of economies. What are the main features of a well...
Barth, James R., Lin, Chen, Lin, Ping, Song, Frank M.
Building on the important study by Beck, Demirguc-Kunt, and Levine [2006. Bank supervision and corruption in lending. Journal of Monetary Economics 53, 2131-2163], we examine the effects of both...
INSOLVENCY AND RISK-TAKING IN THE THRIFT INDUSTRY: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE FUTURE
JAMES R. BARTH, R. DAN BRUMBAUGH, JR., DANIEL SAUERHAFT
This paper puts the current problems facing the thrift industry, Federal Home Loan Bank Board, and Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation into historical perspective. It discusses the...
THE NEED TO REFORM THE FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE SYSTEM
JAMES R. BARTH, CARL D. HUDSON, DANIEL E. PAGE
The biggest financial disaster in modern history struck the savings and loan industry during the 1980s. This paper argues that the unifying cause of this debacle was the way in which the federal...
DO FEDERAL DEFICITS REALLY MATTER?
JAMES R. BARTH, GEORGE IDEN, FRANK S. RUSSEK
This paper reviews competing views regarding interest rates and other economic effects of federal deficits. It discusses the findings of several empirical studies that have analyzed these...
Bank Regulation in the United States
James R. Barth, Triphon Phumiwasana, Wenling Lu
Bankenpolitik, Bankensystem, Geschichte, Zeitgeschichte, Vereinigte Staaten, Banking policy, Banking system, Historical perspective, Contemporary history, United States
Barth,James R., Caprio,Gerard, Levine,Ross
This volume assembles and presents a new database on bank regulation in over 150 countries (included also on CD). It offers the first comprehensive cross-country assessment of the impact of bank...
Barth,James R., Caprio,Gerard, Levine,Ross
This volume assembles and presents a new database on bank regulation in over 150 countries (included also on CD). It offers the first comprehensive cross-country assessment of the impact of bank...