Basel Core Principles and Bank Risk : Does Compliance Matter? /

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 associa...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Demirguc-Kunt, Asli
Other Authors: Detragiache, Enrica
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2010.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2010/081
Online Access:Full text available on IMF