Does Basel Compliance Matter for Bank Performance?

Rym Ayadi, Sami Ben Naceur, Barbara Casu and Barry Quinn

No 2015/100, IMF Working Papers from International Monetary Fund

Abstract: The global financial crisis underscored the importance of regulation and supervision to a well-functioning banking system that efficiently channels financial resources into investment. In this paper, we contribute to the ongoing policy debate by assessing whether compliance with international regulatory standards and protocols enchances bank operating efficiency. We focus specifically on the adoption of international capital standards and the Basel Core Principles for Effective Bank Supervision (BCP). The relationship between bank efficiency and regulatory compliance is investigated using the (Simar and Wilson 2007) double bootstrapping approach on an international sample of publicly listed banks. Our results indicate that overall BCP compliance, or indeed compliance with any of its individual chapters, has no association with bank efficiency.

Keywords: WP; bank efficiency; bank performance; efficiency estimate; BCP compliance; input efficiency; BCP; Efficiency; Regulatory Compliance; bank concentration; Basel Core Principles; Bank regulation; Emerging and frontier financial markets; Bank supervision; Commercial banks; Global; Central and Eastern Europe; North America (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 41
Date: 2015-05-05
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