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Systemic Banking Crises, Financial Liberalization and Governance
Basma Majerbi, University of Victoria, Canada
Houssem Rachdi, University of Jendouba, Tunisia
This paper revisits the relationship between liberalization and systemic banking crisis in light of a more comprehensive measure of financial liberalization and its interaction with various measures of banking governance and institutional quality. We estimate the probability of systemic banking crisis for a sample of 53 countries using multivariate logit models and allowing the determinants of crisis to vary across country groups. Our results show that liberalization increases the likelihood of crisis only at early stages of financial reforms and up to certain level, after which, greater liberalization, through more advanced financial reforms, tends to reduce the probability of systemic banking crisis. We also find that stricter banking regulation and supervision, better law and order, government stability, lack of corruption and bureaucratic efficiency generally lead to reduced probability of crisis. However, the magnitude and significance of the beneficial effects of governance largely depend on the level of liberalization and vary across countries depending on their levels of income and development.
Keywords: systemic banking crises; early warning systems; multivariate logistic regressions; financial liberalization; financial reform; banking governance; institutional quality
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