TY  - JOUR
AU  - Barth,James R.
AU  - Caprio,Gerard, Jr.
AU  - Levine,Ross
TI  - Bank Regulation and Supervision in 180 Countries from 1999 to 2011
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 18733
PY  - 2013
Y2  - January 2013
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w18733
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w18733.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
James R. Barth
Auburn University
393 Lauder Business Building
Auburn, Alabama 36849
E-Mail: barthjr@auburn.edu

Gerard Caprio
Department of Economics
Williams College
Williamstown, MA 01267
E-Mail: gerard.caprio@williams.edu

Ross Levine
Haas School of Business
University of California at Berkeley
545 Student Services Building, #1900 (F685)
Berkeley, CA 94720-1900
Tel: 510-643-1419
E-Mail: Ross_levine@haas.berkeley.edu
AB  - In this paper and the associated online database, we provide new data and measures of bank regulatory and supervisory policies in 180 countries from 1999 to 2011. The data include and the measures are based upon responses to hundreds of questions, including information on permissible bank activities, capital requirements, the powers of official supervisory agencies, information disclosure requirements, external governance mechanisms, deposit insurance, barriers to entry, and loan provisioning. The dataset also provides information on the organization of regulatory agencies and the size, structure, and performance of banking systems. Since the underlying surveys are large and complex, we construct summary indices of key bank regulatory and supervisory policies to facilitate cross-country comparisons and analyses of changes in banking policies over time.
ER  -