Authors: Gerard Caprio, Ross Eric Levine, James R. Barth This project includes the first comprehensive, cross-country survey of how banks are regulated and supervised, including requirements and regulatory powers regarding bank entry, ownership, capital, powers and activities, auditing, organization, liquidity, provisioning, accounting and disclosure, incentives for supervisors, deposit insurance, and disciplining powers including bank exit. The goal of this research is to draw conclusions for policy makers on key priorities in making their regulatory and supervisory framework more robust. (All of the database files are in Microsoft Excel format) In Rethinking Bank Regulation: Till Angels Govern, James Barth, Gerard Caprio, and Ross Levine present an analytical framework for viewing bank regulation, describe in some detail the 2003 version of the database, use the database to investigate the impact of bank regulation on various dimensions of bank performance, look at what determines the decisions countries make on the orientation of the regulatory environment, and draw policy conclusions.
Available December 2005 from Cambridge University Press. The CD included with the book includes both the database and the indices used by the authors. 2007 Database:
What are regulatory and supervisory practices around the world on the eve of Basel II implementation? How has bank regulation and supervision changed over the past decade? The third update of the Bank Regulation and Supervision Database helps answer these and many other questions. Data for 143 countries for 2005/6 allow comparisons across countries and with the previous two rounds. The companion paper discusses changes in bank regulation and supervision over the past 10 years.
 2007 database (revised June 2008, 768kb)
Bank Regulations are Changing: But For Better or Worse? (revised June 2008, 209kb) 2003 Database by section 
2003 Database by country
Original Database by section
Original Database by country (40kb each)
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