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Thematic Index

Savings and housing corporations (CAVs), 219
Savings and loan institutions, 72box, 114
Secured transaction principles, 173box
Securitization risk, 228, 232, 234
Security interests, 164
Self-built housing, 210-211, 221
Separate entity resolution, 238
Separating equilibrium, 195
Single entity resolution, 238
Small and medium enterprises (SMEs):
ages of, 188-189
bank concentration’s impact on lending to, 195-196
bankruptcy costs, 193-194
credit for, 170
credit rationing, 194-195
creditor rights and borrowing by, 196-197
data on access to credit for, 187
as employers, 187
expertise in assessing credit risk in, 195, 200-201
financing constraints as problem for, 188
fixed lending costs for loans to, 191
foreign banks’ impact on lending to, 195
imperfect enforcement, 192-193
information asymmetry between banks and, 136, 176, 198
invoice discounting, 198, 199box
in Latin America and Caribbean, 189-190
loan guarantee schemes, 198-200, 201box
opacity of information on, 136, 176, 198
severity of financing constraints for, 188, 189tab
subsidies for cost of loans to, 192, 194, 200
Social capital, 169box
Social value, 142-143
Social view of state-owned banking, 141, 145, 156-157
South Asia, 145, 150, 189
Standardized approach in Basel II, 227-229, 230tab
Standardized simplified approach in Basel II, 228, 229tab
State-owned banks:
as cause of banking crises, 33
characterizing success in, 154-155
credit access and, 22-23
development banks, 143-144, 146box, 150-153
economic development role of, 143, 153-154
effect on financial development of, 158-159
effect on output growth of, 159-160
expectations for, 145
foreign banks vs., 150tab
independence from political influence, 156
in Latin America, 145, 147-150
loans in isolated areas, 143
loans to public sector, 151tab
management of, 156
mortgage banks, 213-215
nature of intervention by, 143-145
nonperforming loans, 139
percentage of total bank assets controlled by, 148tab
performance indicators, 148-149, 150tab
perspectives on, 141
privatization of, 132box, 141, 147, 149box
public trust of, 144
rationale for, 142-143, 154
social/political functions of, 141, 145, 156-157
types of, 146box, 147box
Subordinated debt, 108, 114
Subsidiaries, 130box, 237-238
Subsidies:
characteristics of programs, 217tab
explicit and focused, 220-221
for housing finance, 215-216
for loans to SMEs, 192, 194, 200
Sudden stop (1998), 13, 14fig, 33, 39-43, 40fig, 45-47
Supervisory discipline, 20, 107-108, 112. See also Regulation and supervision of banks
Supervisory review, 227

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