Can Good Governance Lower Financial Intermediation Costs?

December 11, 2018

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Mariusz Jarmuzek, and Tonny Lybek. Can Good Governance Lower Financial Intermediation Costs?, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2018) accessed December 3, 2024

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Summary

This paper argues that better governance practices can reduce the costs, risks and uncertainty of financial intermediation. Our sample covers high-, middle- and low-income countries before and after the global financial crisis (GFC). We find that net interest margins of banks are lower if various governance indicators are better. More cross-border lending also appears conducive to lower intermediation costs, while the level of capital market development is not significant. The GFC seems not to have had a strong impact except via credit risk. Finally, we estimate the size of potential gains from improved governance.

Subject: Bank credit, Banking, Capital markets, Competition, Credit risk, Financial crises, Financial markets, Financial regulation and supervision, Global financial crisis of 2008-2009, Inflation, Prices

Keywords: Bank characteristic, Bank-dealership framework, Bank-dealership model, Banks capital, Capital markets, Competition, Corruption, Credit risk, Financial intermediation costs, Global, Global financial crisis of 2008-2009, Governance, Inflation, Intermediation cost, Transaction size, WP

Publication Details

Pages:

43
Volume:

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Series:

Working Paper No. 2018/279
Stock No:

WPIEA2018279
ISBN:

9781484385678
ISSN:

1018-5941

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