information analysis, this paper outlines what signals a central bank might look for to determine if a financial crisis is …

bank supervision and eventually produce banking crisis. For political reasons, most countries establish a regulatory … culture that embraces three economically contradictory elements: politically directed subsidies to selected bank borrowers …

Even after controlling for local economic conditions, differences in state bank supervision and regulation contribute … toward explaining the large variation in state bank suspension rates across U.S. counties during the Great Depression. More … requirements had the opposite effect. States that endowed bank supervisors with the authority to liquidate banks minimized …

In this paper and the associated online database, we provide new data and measures of bank regulatory and supervisory … questions, including information on permissible bank activities, capital requirements, the powers of official supervisory … performance of banking systems. Since the underlying surveys are large and complex, we construct summary indices of key bank …

This paper uses our new database on bank regulation and supervision in 107 countries to assess the relationship between …) regulatory restrictions on bank activities and the mixing of banking and commerce; (ii) regulations on domestic and foreign bank … supervision and regulation of bank activities. The findings instead suggest that policies that rely on guidelines that (1) force …

exposures. In a bailout-augmented asset pricing model with rare disasters, country characteristics that inform the likelihood of … a bailout should predict stock returns. We find greater financial pricing anomalies for the largest banks in developed … pricing discrepancy widens in anticipation of large stock market and GDP declines, as the bailout-augmented asset pricing …