Bank Regulation and Supervision in 180 Countries from 1999 to 2011 / James R. Barth, Gerard Caprio, Jr., Ross Levine.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Barth, James R.

Contributor:

Caprio, Gerard.

Levine, Ross.

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w18733.

NBER working paper series no. w18733

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2013.

Summary:

In this paper and the associated online database, we provide new data and measures of bank regulatory and supervisory policies in 180 countries from 1999 to 2011. The data include and the measures are based upon responses to hundreds of questions, including information on permissible bank activities, capital requirements, the powers of official supervisory agencies, information disclosure requirements, external governance mechanisms, deposit insurance, barriers to entry, and loan provisioning. The dataset also provides information on the organization of regulatory agencies and the size, structure, and performance of banking systems. Since the underlying surveys are large and complex, we construct summary indices of key bank regulatory and supervisory policies to facilitate cross-country comparisons and analyses of changes in banking policies over time.

Notes:

January 2013.

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