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. pdf 2013
