The 5th joint SUERF/Bank of Finland joint conference was held in Helsinki on 13 June 2013. The general theme of the …

Building on the work of Sorge and Virolainen (2006), we revisit the data on aggregate Finnish bank loan losses from the …

, as well as an enhanced framework for bank regulation, supervision, and resolution that could mitigate the need to change …

This paper examines what institutional and bank-specific factors determine bank stock price synchronicity. Using data … on 37 countries from 1996–2007, we find that bank stocks are more aligned with the whole market (1) during the financial … insurance; and (4) in countries that have lower bank-level disclosure. The results hold for both emerging and developed economy …

bank suffices for unexpected losses with a 95%-99% probability. This translates into an expected bank failure rate as high … as once in twenty years. Even if the bank's interest income is incorporated into our model, the expected failure rate is …

This paper evaluates bank exit regimes in selected financial centres using econometric methods. The focus is on bank … exit regimes applicable to commercial banks in New York, London, Frankfurt, Helsinki and Tokyo in 1998–2002. Bank exit … regimes are studied from the perspective of bank creditors and bank shareholders. In order to apply econometric methods, the …