Mercosur? The objective of this paper is to answer this question by analyzing changes in bank behavior after crises in the … literature-to post-crisis bank behavior. Using a panel dataset of commercial banks during the period 1990-2006, we analyze the … impact of crises on four sets of financial indicators of bank behavior-profitability, maturity preference …

stand-alone agencies, though, a majority of bank supervisors are part of a central bank. The survey asked respondents about … accountability. Most agencies reported having operational independence. Bank supervisors were unique in viewing financial stabili …

Intro -- Contents -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. SUSCEPTIBILITY OF BANKING REGULATION TO CAPTURE -- III. A MODEL OF BANK … REGULATION WITH MORAL HAZARD -- IV. COMPETITION BETWEEN JURISDICTIONS -- V. CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES. …

information on government actions undertaken in response to bank distress. Weformulate a simple theoretical model of a banking … industry which we use to identify and constructtheory-based measures of systemic bank shocks (SBS). Using both country …

identified late, solutions are much more costly. Until recently, Europe has seen only a small number of outright bank failures …, which made the estimation of early warning models for bank supervision very difficult. This paper presents a unique database … of individual bank distress across the European Union from mid-1990s to 2008. Using this data set, we analyze the causes …

associated with bank soundness. Using data for over 3,000 banks in 86countries, we find that neither the overall index of BCP … compliance nor its individual components are robustly associated with bank risk measured by Z-scores. We also fail to find a …

resulting in an acceleration of bank lending. In particular, regulatory reforms pertaining to loan classification and … prudential regulation in Uruguay now generally conforms to high standards while also embracing innovative elements such as dyn …