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  "title": "Does Basel Compliance Matter for Bank Performance?",
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  "summary": "The global financial crisis underscored the importance of regulation and supervision to a well-functioning banking system that efficiently channels financial resources into investment.",
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      "content": "- The global financial crisis underscored the importance of regulation and supervision to a well-functioning banking system that efficiently channels financial resources into investment.\n- This paper assesses whether compliance with international regulatory standards and protocols enhances bank operating efficiency, focusing on:\n  - Adoption of international capital standards.\n  - Basel Core Principles for Effective Bank Supervision (BCP).\n- The relationship between bank efficiency and regulatory compliance is investigated using the (Simar and Wilson 2007) double bootstrapping approach on an international sample of publicly listed banks.\n- Main result: overall BCP compliance, or compliance with any of its individual chapters, has no association with bank efficiency."
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      "content": "- Estimation approach: (Simar and Wilson 2007) double bootstrapping approach.\n- Sample: international sample of publicly listed banks."
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      "content": "- Overall BCP compliance has no association with bank efficiency.\n- Compliance with any individual BCP chapter likewise shows no association with bank efficiency."
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      "content": "- Subject: Bank regulation; Bank supervision; Banking; Basel Core Principles; Commercial banks; Emerging and frontier financial markets; Financial institutions; Financial markets; Financial regulation and supervision.\n- Keywords: bank concentration; bank efficiency; bank performance; Bank regulation; Bank supervision; Basel Core Principles; BCP; BCP compliance; Central and Eastern Europe; Commercial banks; Efficiency; efficiency estimate; Emerging and frontier financial markets; Global; input efficiency; North America; Regulatory Compliance; WP.\n\n---\n\n Content in this bundle\n\n- wp15100\n  - wp15100 (Markdown version){rel=\"alternate\" type=\"text/markdown\"}\n  - wp15100 (PDF){rel=\"external\" type=\"application/pdf\"}\n\n---\n\nSource: https://www.imf.org/en/publications/wp/issues/2016/12/31/does-basel-compliance-matter-for-bank-performance-42899"
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    "Authors: Rym Ayadi, Barbara Casu, Barry Quinn",
    "Published: May 5, 2015",
    "Series: IMF Working Papers",
    "DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781475580389.001",
    "The global financial crisis underscored the importance of regulation and supervision to a well-functioning banking system that efficiently channels financial resources into investment.",
    "This paper assesses whether compliance with international regulatory standards and protocols enhances bank operating efficiency, focusing on:",
    "The relationship between bank efficiency and regulatory compliance is investigated using the (Simar and Wilson 2007) double bootstrapping approach on an international sample of publicly listed banks.",
    "Main result: overall BCP compliance, or compliance with any of its individual chapters, has no association with bank efficiency.",
    "Estimation approach: (Simar and Wilson 2007) double bootstrapping approach.",
    "Sample: international sample of publicly listed banks.",
    "Overall BCP compliance has no association with bank efficiency.",
    "Compliance with any individual BCP chapter likewise shows no association with bank efficiency.",
    "Subject: Bank regulation; Bank supervision; Banking; Basel Core Principles; Commercial banks; Emerging and frontier financial markets; Financial institutions; Financial markets; Financial regulation and supervision.",
    "Keywords: bank concentration; bank efficiency; bank performance; Bank regulation; Bank supervision; Basel Core Principles; BCP; BCP compliance; Central and Eastern Europe; Commercial banks; Efficiency; efficiency estimate; Emerging and frontier financial markets; Global; input efficiency; North America; Regulatory Compliance; WP.",
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