We aim to assess how accurately accounting and stock market indicators predict rating changes for Asian banks. We … indicators but are more effective in predicting upgrades than downgrades, especially for large banks. Moreover, early indicators … are only significant in predicting rating changes for banks that are more focused on traditional banking activities such …

exit regimes applicable to commercial banks in New York, London, Frankfurt, Helsinki and Tokyo in 1998–2002. Bank exit … costs for banks are lower. …

In financial market studies, public supervision has rarely been found to have any effects on financial market … financial market development, there is limited evidence that public supervision does the same. The objective of the paper is to … empirically investigate the relation between public supervision and financial market development. This is done by focusing on …

, London, Frankfurt, Helsinki and Tokyo. The focus is on bank exit legislation applicable to commercial banks. The legislation …

on European banks is exploited with simulated scale-free networks. The average contagion affected 70% and 40% of European … banks’ total assets in 2007 and in 2010, respectively. Country-level results suggest that French, British, German and … Spanish banks are the most contagious ones, whereas banks from Ireland, Greece and Portugal induce only limited negative …

characteristics, such as capital and liquidity. We estimate the new model on the entire panel of US banks, spanning the period 1985q1 … establish that the risk of the relatively large banks and banks that failed in the subprime crisis is higher than the industry …’s average. Thus, we provide a new leading indicator, which is able to forecast future solvency problems of banks. …

(PCA) by the authorities in handling problem banks. We initially consider precisely what market discipline means in this …

Whether or not banks are engaged in ex ante monitoring of customers may have important consequences for the whole … economy. We approach this question via a model in which banks can invest in either information acquisition or market power … local banks. We find evidence that banks’ investments in branch networks and human capital (personnel) contribute to …