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This paper links the current sub-prime mortgage crisis to a decline in lending standards associated with the rapid expansion of this market. We show that lending standards declined more in areas that experienced larger credit booms and house price increases. We also find that the underlying...
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Losses may accrue to depositors at insolvent banks both at and after the time of official resolution. Losses at resolution occur because of poor closure rules and regulatory forbearance. Losses after resolution occur if depositors' access to their claims is delayed or "frozen." While the sources...
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multivariate probability model-and their application to studying the determinants of banking crises. The use of these models to … provide early warnings for crises is also reviewed, as are studies of the economic effects of banking crises and of the …
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of banking distress in Europe. We identify a set of indicators and thresholds that can help to distinguish sound banks …
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This paper provides a framework to assess the benefits and costs of intervening in a banking crisis. Intervention … resolution strategy. Dominant factors affecting net benefits are the relative size of the banking system and the loss liquidation …
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This study looks at the first two years of the banking crisis that erupted in Indonesia in late 1997. It finds that the … banking sector was weak at the outset, and that governance problems intensified the crisis and seriously delayed its … in the costs of resolution. By end-1999, the critical elements to reconstruct the banking system were in place, and the …
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This paper empirically analyzes the effects of a banking crisis on bank credit to the private sector for a panel of … credit function changes during a banking crisis, reflecting a generalized disruption in the stability of behavioral …, this study gives support to Third Generation Models in their ability to predict banking crises. Based on the empirical …
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When a country's banking system becomes more linked to the global banking network, does that system get more or less … prone to a banking crisis? Using model simulations and econometric estimates based on a world-wide dataset, we find an M …-shaped relationship between financial stability of a country's banking sector and its interconnectedness. In particular, for banking …
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in real time. In this paper, systemic risk is defined as the conditional probability of a systemic banking crisis and …
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In this paper we explore the properties of the global banking network using cross-border bank lending data for 184 …, connectivity, and clustering. We document a relatively unstable global banking network, with structural breaks in network … volatile over the period. Connectivity tends to fall during and after systemic banking crises and sovereign debt crises. The …
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