G2 - Financial Institutions and Services

• Efficiency and Economies of Scale of Large Canadian Banks

  Staff Working Paper 2005-13 Jason Allen, Ying Liu

  The authors measure the economies of scale of Canada's six largest banks and their costefficiency over time. Using a unique panel data set from 1983 to 2003, they estimate pooled translog cost functions and derive measures of relative efficiency and economies of scale.

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Topic(s): Financial institutions JEL Code(s): C, C3, C33, D, D2, D24, G, G2, G21

• An Analysis of Closure Policy under Alternative Regulatory Structures

  Staff Working Paper 2005-11 Greg Caldwell

  The author develops a theoretical model of bank closure. The regulatory decision about bank failure consists of two parts: whether to close and how to close.

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Topic(s): Financial institutions JEL Code(s): G, G2, G21, G28

• Trade Credit and Credit Rationing in Canadian Firms

  Staff Working Paper 2004-49 Rose Cunningham

  Burkart and Ellingsen's (2004) model of trade credit and bank credit rationing predicts that trade credit will be used by medium-wealth and low-wealth firms to help ease bank credit rationing.

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Topic(s): Credit and credit aggregates, Financial markets JEL Code(s): G, G1, G14, G2, G21, G3, G32

• Market Valuation and Risk Assessment of Canadian Banks

  Staff Working Paper 2004-34 Ying Liu, Mingwei Yuan, Eli Papakirykos

  The authors apply the asset-valuation model developed by Rabinovitch (1989) to six publicly traded Canadian banks over the period 1982–2002.

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Topic(s): Financial institutions JEL Code(s): G, G1, G12, G2, G21

• The New Basel Capital Accord and the Cyclical Behaviour of Bank Capital

  Staff Working Paper 2004-30 Mark Illing, Graydon Paulin

  The authors conduct a counterfactual simulation of the proposed rules under the new Basel Capital Accord (Basel II), including the revised treatment of expected and unexpected credit losses proposed by the Basel Committee in October 2003.

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Topic(s): Financial institutions JEL Code(s): G, G2, G21, G28, K, K2, K23

• Regulatory Changes and Financial Structure: The Case of Canada

  Staff Working Paper 2004-26 Christian Calmès

  The author documents some stylized facts about the Canadian financial structure. He explores these empirical facts in the context of Canadian financial legislation and finds that, over the 1990s, Canadian businesses became more heavily dependent on financial markets as their primary source of external funding.

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Topic(s): Financial institutions, Financial services, Recent economic and financial developments JEL Code(s): G, G2, G20, G21

• Competition in Banking: A Review of the Literature

  Staff Working Paper 2004-24 Carol Ann Northcott

  The author reviews the theoretical and empirical literature to examine the traditional perception that the following trade-off exists between economic efficiency and stability in the banking system: a competitive banking system is more efficient and therefore important to growth, but market power is necessary for stability in the banking system.

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Topic(s): Financial institutions, Financial services, Market structure and pricing JEL Code(s): G, G2, G21, G28, L, L1, L11, L12, L13, L16

• When Bad Things Happen to Good Banks: Contagious Bank Runs and Currency Crises

  Staff Working Paper 2004-18 Raphael Solomon

  The author develops a twin crisis model featuring multiple banks.

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Topic(s): Exchange rates, Financial institutions JEL Code(s): E, E5, E58, F, F3, F30, G, G2, G21

• Public Venture Capital and Entrepreneurship

  Staff Working Paper 2004-10 Oana Secrieru, Marianne Vigneault

  Entrepreneurship is a key factor in promoting growth in output and employment. Consequently, to encourage new start-ups, most governments in developed countries have public venture capital programs.

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Topic(s): Financial markets, Fiscal policy, Labour markets JEL Code(s): D, D2, G, G2, G24, G28, J, J2, J24, M, M1, M13

• Bank Capital, Agency Costs, and Monetary Policy

  Staff Working Paper 2004-6 Césaire Meh, Kevin Moran

  Evidence suggests that banks, like firms, face financial frictions when raising funds.

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Topic(s): Business fluctuations and cycles, Financial institutions, Monetary policy transmission JEL Code(s): E, E4, E44, E5, E52, G, G2, G21