Part IX Bank Restructuring
Language:
English
Print Publication Date:
10 Sep 1997
Keywords:
BOOK; bank; market; tax deductibility; bank supervisor; yen rate; bank audit; deductible provision; Commercial banks; Loans; Bank supervision; Bank soundness; Deposit insurance; Global; Africa; Europe; North America; Southeast Asia; Central and Eastern Europe

Abstract

In a market-oriented economy, the banking sector plays an essential role in facilitating payments and intermediating between savers and investors and in allocating credits by relative risk and return to efficient economic agents. A sound banking sector thus contributes to the smooth operation of the economy and to economic welfare. According to some authors the maintenance of a sound and properly functioning banking system could be considered in part a public good.1

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Cover Banking Soundness and Monetary Policy
Banking Soundness and Monetary Policy
ISBN:
9781557756459
Publication Date:
10 Sep 1997
Publisher:
International Monetary Fund
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5089/9781557756459.071
Pages:
558