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nancial supervision is carried out by an independent government agency,
bad loans are smaller, banks have to hold less capital, lending rates are higher
and banking crises are less frequent. They nd opposite results where super-
vision is carried out by the central bank, but especially when it is entrusted to
a dependent government authority. Regrettably, Eichengreen and Dincer did
not distinguish between central bank independence (or not), a situation that
is still quite rare worldwide and, like Klomp and de Haan (2009), whether or
not the central bank has an explicit mandate for nancial supervision.
– In a direction favourable to the combination of activities, Goodhart and
Schoenmaker (1995) review 104 bank failures in ...