arrangements were in place, which highlights the importance of building a suitable framework for preventing and managing banking …

competitive conduct of financial institutions and banking system fragility. Using the Panzar and Rosse H-Statistic as a measure … for competition in 38 countries during 1980-2003, we present evidence that more competitive banking systems are less prone …

The paper provides an empirical analysis of aggregate banking system ratios during systemic banking crises. Drawing … discriminate between sound and unsound banking systems. We also estimate a duration model to investigate whether the ratios help … determine the timing of a banking crisis. Despite some weaknesses in the available data, our findings offer initial evidence …

respond in a timely manner and efficiently enough to prevent the escalation of the banking crisis and spurred the adoption of … suboptimal policy decisions. Public finance rigidities limited the government's capacity to correct existing imbalances and the … triple banking, currency, and fiscal crisis. …

when controlling for the degree of concentration in banking systems, inter-industry competition, characteristics of the …