we find that a bank’s balance sheet characteristics can help to forecast its systemic importance and, as a result, may be …

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

different combinations of bank asset and funding sources and assess their impact on the mortgage crisis. We then estimate how … distinct strategies have affected bank profitability and risk before the crisis, and what impact they have put on the mortgage …

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 …

banking system took its first step at the end of 1990 when the newly established commercial bank Banca Comerciala Romana (BCR …) took over retail operations performed previously by the National Bank of Romania (NBR). Simultaneously some privately … unfriendly economic environment, the poor quality of bank managers and shareholders and cumbersome legal procedures led to an …

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 …

, 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 …