Supervising cross-border banks: theory, evidence and policy
In: Economic policy, Band 28, Heft 73, S. 5-44
ISSN: 1468-0327
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In: Economic policy, Band 28, Heft 73, S. 5-44
ISSN: 1468-0327
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In: World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 5571
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Remittances are a substantial source of external financing for developing countries that influence many aspects of their development. Though research has shown that remittances are both expensive and price sensitive, little is known about what explains their price. Newly gathered data across 119 country pairs or corridors are used to explore the factors associated with the price of remittances. Corridors with larger numbers of migrants and more competition among providers are found to exhibit lower prices for remittances, when average prices across all types of remittance service providers are considered. Corridors with lower barriers to access banking services and broader regulation of remittance service providers also have lower prices. Remittance prices are higher in richer corridors and in corridors with greater bank participation in the remittance market. Few significant differences emerge when results are compared across banks and, separately, across money transfer operators. However, estimations for Western Union, a leading player in the remittances business, suggest that its prices are less sensitive to competition.
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Household credit, especially for mortgages, has doubled over the past years in the new European Union member countries, raising concerns about the economic and social consequences of household indebtedness in the event of a macroeconomic crisis. Using household survey data for 2005, 2006, and 2007 for both old and new European Union members, this paper assesses the determinants of access to mortgage finance. It also examines whether mortgage holders were more likely to suffer financial distress compared with non-mortgage holders in the period before the global financial crisis. The analysis does not find any systematic evidence that mortgage holders are financially more vulnerable than renters or outright owners; in fact, the incidence of financial vulnerability generally fell between 2005 and 2007, possibly reflecting the strong income growth experienced by these countries over this period. In addition, although tenure status is more difficult to explain in the new European Union member countries, the analysis finds that many of the same drivers of tenure status in the older member countries generally drive tenure status in the newer member countries as well. Finally, there is no evidence that access to mortgage credit is based on expected income in the old or in the new European Union member countries.
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In: Journal of Finance, Forthcoming
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In: Journal of monetary economics, Band 46, Heft 1, S. 31-77
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In: CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP16978
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In: The journal of development studies, Band 55, Heft 12, S. 2495-2512
ISSN: 1743-9140
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In: The journal of development studies, Band 55, Heft 12, S. 2495-2512
ISSN: 1743-9140
In: CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP12009
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In: World development: the multi-disciplinary international journal devoted to the study and promotion of world development, Band 66, S. 778
In: World development: the multi-disciplinary international journal devoted to the study and promotion of world development, Band 52, S. 19-33