$100,000 to $250,000 per depositor and bank. For some banks, the amount of insured deposits increased significantly; for …

banking crises. Recent findings show that government intervention results in only a small proportion of bank recoveries. This …

This paper is one of the first attempts to conduct an empirical investigation of the relationship between bank capital …, securitization and bank risk-taking in a context of the rapid growth in off-balance-sheet activities. The data come from the Canadian … securitization and bank risk-taking. Profit-risk measure is more sensitive than loss-risk measure to the variation in securitization …

This paper aims to answer the following question: what is (are) the cause(s) of the severe reduction in bank credits in … period an ultra–expansionary monetary policy has been implemented by the Bank of Japan. A theoretical lending–supply model is …

, which could be explained by so-called “crisis of confidence” (bank crisis in Russia in that period). Since 2006 Moscow banks …

This paper documents a large cross-bank and cross-country variation in the relationship between loan loss provisions … and the business cycle and explores bank management specific, bank-activity specific and country specific (institutional …. Better investor protection and more restrictive bank regulations reduce the procyclicality of LLP. Additional evidence shows …

and turbulence accompanied by repeated bank crises. However, governments in many transition countries learned from these … tumultuous experiences and eventually dealt successfully with the accumulated bad loans and lack of strong bank regulation. In … addition, rapid progress in bank privatization and consolidation took place in the late 1990s and early 2000s, usually with the …

This paper discusses recent bank runs in seven transition economies (Russia, Bulgaria, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia …, Lithuania and Romania), comparing them against the older US experience and theoretical research. Bank runs seem to usually be … information based. For example, improvements in bank transparency such as new accounting rules can reveal a bank’s insolvency and …

and turbulence accompanied by repeated bank crises. However, governments in many transition countries learned from these … tumultuous experiences and eventually dealt successfully with the accumulated bad loans and lack of strong bank regulation. In … addition, rapid progress in bank privatization and consolidation took place in the late 1990s and early 2000s, usually with the …