This paper presents a model of a banking industry with heterogeneous banks that delivers predictions on the …

of Japanese banks has steadily improved since 2001, but there are significant differences within the banking sector, with …

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 …

Many empirical studies of banking crises have employed "banking crisis" (BC) indicators constructedusing primarily … information on government actions undertaken in response to bank distress. Weformulate a simple theoretical model of a banking …

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 …

We update the widely used banking crises database by Laeven and Valencia (2008, 2010) with new information on recent … banking, currency, and sovereign debt crises during the period 1970-2011. The data show some striking differences in policy …