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This note explores the costs and benefits of different policy options to reduce the risks associated with credit booms, drawing upon several country experiences and the findings from econometric analysis.
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This paper assesses the impact of the geographic diversification of bank holding company (BHC) assets across the United States on their market valuations. Using two novel identification strategies based on the dynamic process of interstate bank deregulation, we find that exogenous increases in...
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This paper shows that banks use accounting discretion to overstate the value of distressed assets. Banks' balance sheets overvalue real estate-related assets compared to the market value of these assets, especially during the U.S. mortgage crisis. Share prices of banks with large exposure to...
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This paper presents a new database of systemic banking crises for the period 1970-2009. While there are many …
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multivariate probability model-and their application to studying the determinants of banking crises. The use of these models to … provide early warnings for crises is also reviewed, as are studies of the economic effects of banking crises and of the …
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In episodes of significant banking distress or perceived systemic risk to the financial system, policymakers have often … restructuring programs and may increase moral hazard going forward. Using a sample of 42 episodes of banking crises, this paper …
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Using aggregate and bank level data for several countries, the paper studies what happens to the banking system in the … aftermath of a banking crisis. Contemporary crises are not accompanied by declines in aggregate bank deposits, and credit does …
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This paper studies whether compliance with the Basel Core Principles for effective banking supervision (BCPs) is …
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This paper presents a new database on the timing of systemic banking crises and policy responses to resolve them. The … database covers the universe of systemic banking crises for the period 1970-2007, with detailed data on crisis containment and …. The database extends and builds on the Caprio, Klingebiel, Laeven, and Noguera (2005) banking crisis database, and is the …
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This paper studies whether compliance with the Basel Core Principles for Effective Banking Supervision (BCPs) improves … upgrade banking regulation and supervision should consider giving priority to information provision over other elements of the …
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