Asli Demirguc-Kunt

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors try to identify features of the economic environment that tend to breed problems in the banking sector by applying a multivariate logic model to data from a large panel of countries, both industrial and developing.

TL;DR: In this paper, a multi-pronged approach is proposed to analyze competition in the banking sector using Jordan as an example, where the authors examine the extent to which the market is contestable (that is, has low barriers to bank entry and exit), an evaluation of the behavior of bank spreads, and an assessment of non-structural and direct measures of bank competition.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined how well several institutional and firm-level factors and their interactions explain firms' perceptions of property rights protection and found that legal origin and formalism index predict property rights variation better than its openness to international trade.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors find a significant and positive relationship between bank soundness (measured with Moody's financial strength ratings) and compliance with principles related to information provision, and emphasize the importance of transparency in making supervisory processes effective and strengthening market discipline.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined how well several institutional and firm-level factors and their interactions explain firms' perceptions of property rights protection and found that legal origin and formalism index predict property rights variation better than its openness to international trade, its religion, its ethnic diversity, natural endowments or its political system.