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Journal of Financial Stability Vol. 7 No. 4 2011

Basel Core Principles and bank soundness: Does compliance matter?

Asli Demirgüç-Kunt; Enrica Detragiache1

1 International Monetary Fund

Abstract

This paper studies whether compliance with the Basel Core Principles for effective banking supervision (BCPs) is associated with bank soundness. Using data for over 3000 banks in 86 countries, we find that neither the overall index of BCP compliance nor its individual components are robustly associated with bank risk measured by individual bank Z-scores. We also fail to find a relationship between BCP compliance and systemic risk measured by a system-wide Z-score.

DOI
10.1016/j.jfs.2010.03.003
Volume
7
Issue
4
Pages
179-190
Language
en
Sources
bibtex:phds-export.bib openalex crossref

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