Basel Core Principles and Bank Risk: Does Compliance Matter?

By Asli Demirgüç-Kunt, Enrica Detragiache

March 1, 2010

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Asli Demirgüç-Kunt, and Enrica Detragiache. Basel Core Principles and Bank Risk: Does Compliance Matter?, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2010) accessed September 19, 2024

Disclaimer: This Working Paper should not be reported as representing the views of the IMF.The views expressed in this Working Paper are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent those of the IMF or IMF policy. Working Papers describe research in progress by the author(s) and are published to elicit comments and to further debate

Summary

This paper studies whether compliance with the Basel Core Principles for effective banking supervision (BCPs) is associated with bank soundness. Using data for over 3,000 banks in 86countries, we find that neither the overall index of BCP compliance nor its individual components are robustly associated with bank risk measured by Z-scores. We also fail to find a relationship between BCP compliance and systemic risk measured by a system-wide Zscore.

Subject: Bank regulation, Bank soundness, Banking, Basel Core Principles, Commercial banks

Keywords: Bank, Commercial bank, WP

Publication Details

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27
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Working Paper No. 2010/081
Stock No:

WPIEA2010081
ISBN:

9781451982671
ISSN:

1018-5941

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