Why are Canadian banks more resilient? / prepared by Lev Ratnovski and Rocco Huang.

This paper explores factors behind Canadian banks' relative resilience in the ongoing credit turmoil. We identify two main causes: a higher share of depository funding (vs. wholesale funding) in liabilities, and a number of regulatory and structural factors in the Canadian market that reduced b...

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Main Authors: Ratnovski, Lev (Author), Huang, Rocco (Author)
Corporate Author: International Monetary Fund. Western Hemisphere Department
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, ©2009.
Series:IMF working paper ; WP/09/152.
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