period during which more than 1,300 banks failed. Bank failures are fundamentally important because of the unique role played … during this period. First, commercial real estate was only a factor in the bank failures of 1988-92. Second, construction … loans played a much larger role in bank failures than permanent loans, and the relationship is strongest with construction …

privileges for banks to manage their capital and payments of income to share holders and bank creditors as the capital position … of the bank deteriorated and the risk of failure rose. In effect regulators could take preemptive action to keep banks …

of the European Parliament and of the Council have been revised and the new decree of Czech National Bank has come into … companies. According to the new rules, the bank’s capital charge is calculated to capture credit, market and operational risk …

With a sample of 354 U.S. large bank holding companies, this paper investigates the determination of financial distress …

This paper represents a contribution to the still meager literature on the impact of prudential regulation bank … behavior in Tunisia. It aims to examine the effect of the capital requirements on bank credits during the period from 1999 … framework has been binding bank lending in Tunisia during the period of study; well-capitalized banks have lent more than less …