relatedto subsequent bank failure. Perhaps not surprisingly, we findthat all three ratios are strongly informative about …

failedbank without necessarily finding a sound receiving bank beforehand. LTCB was nationalized under the FinancialReconstruction … Deposit Insurance Corporation (DIC)in order to maintain the franchise value of the bank and toclean up its balance sheet …. Throughout the temporarynationalization, until a sound receiving financial institutionis found, the bank continues to provide its …

the actions of the central bank and the real economy.That is, the monetary transmission mechanism of thecountries in the … euro area will change, making the job ofthe new European Central Bank even more difficult thanit is already. But how …

bankingindustry. This goal is served by taking a broad view of thepayments business and analyzing information provided bylarge bank …

length of time between bank examinations affects thequality of information available to supervisors. For thesepurposes, we … condition of a bank. Our analysisassumes that examination information incorporates twotypes of data: information available from … information that can be obtained onlythrough on-site examinations, such as confidential informationabout a bank’s troubled assets …

In August 1996, the U.S. bank regulatory agenciesadopted the market risk amendment (MRA) to the 1988Basle Capital …

Central bank policymakers are not primarilyrandom number generators.1 Reading boththe financial press and the work of … importance to each Federal OpenMarket Committee policy decision. Academic work on theimpact of central bank policy gives a …