indices; second, which bank-specific characteristics explain these risk exposures; third, are there clusters of banks with … analysis of bank-to-bank linkages suggests that any 'globalization' of the euro area crisis is likely to be channelled through …

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 …

This paper presents a simple heuristic measure of tail risk, which is applied to individual bank stress tests and to …

policymakers' efforts to strengthen bank capitalization …

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 …