analysis is severely hampered by the lack of consistent data that capture the international dimensions of finance. While … banking statistics. …

cross-border banks. Using a sample of 25 large European banking groups with subsidiaries in Central, Eastern and Southern … Europe (CESE), we analyze the impact of a CESE credit shock on the capital buffers needed by the sample banking groups under … different forms of ring-fencing. Our simulations show that under stricter forms of ring-fencing, sample banking groups have …

risk-averse depositors. A "banking crisis" is defined as a case in which banks exhaust their reserve assets. Under … different model specifications, the banking industry is either a monopoly bank or a competitive banking industry. If the nominal … rate of interest (rate of inflation) is below (above) some threshold, a monopolistic banking system will always result in a …

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 …

behavior of depositors vis-à-vis foreign banks. We rely on data from the banking crises in Argentina and Uruguay over the … nature of the crisis? Contrary to the commonly held view that foreign banks play a stabilizing role during domestic banking …