Europe. Therefore the paper considers the development of the Estonian banking sector and derives individual banks ́fragility … is to use a plurality of risk scores when assessing bank vulnerability. …

This study is an empirical investigation of theoretical predictions concerning the impact of bank competition on bank … banking increases, the loan-to-asset ratio will rise (under reasonable assumptions), but the probability of bank failure can … either increase or decrease. However, the probability of bank failure will fall if and only if borrowers' response to take on …

Does enhanced shareholder liability reduce bank failure? We compare the performance of around 4,200 state … results suggest that exposing shareholders to more downside risk can successfully reduce bank failure. …

Using a panel data approach with bank-fixed effects, we study the impact of Targeted Longer-Term Refinancing Operations …

ratio) and size (TBA) of the industry are linked to lower sovereign risk in general. Foreign bank penetration and … after the onset of the sovereign crisis in Europe. …

A reasonable future for Europe can only be achieved if two essential elements are fulfilled: Firstly, newly established …

financial crisis of the 20th century - the Great Depression. Using balance-sheet and systemic risk measures at the bank level …, we build an econometric model with incidental truncation that jointly considers bank survival, the type of bank closure … (consolidations, absorption, and failures), and changes to bank risk. Despite roughly 9,000 bank closures, risk did not leave the …