The paper presents a supervisory framework that addresses the vulnerabilities of partially dollarized banking systems …

This paper derives risk indicators for the major Chilean banks based on contingent claims analysis, an extension of … banks' risk to a tractable number, we apply principal component analysis. Vector autoregressions of risk indicators with the … and persistence of responses of bank credit risk can vary across banks in the system. …

of senior management of 8 banks accounting for about 90 percent of the commercial banking system corroborated evidence …Lending practices of commercial banks in Afghanistan were analyzed using CAMEL ratings. Statistically significant … correlations were found: Banks with worse ratings (a) had more lending to domestic clients and (b) paid less tax. There was no …

banking statistics. …

of banking distress in Europe. We identify a set of indicators and thresholds that can help to distinguish sound banks …The global financial crisis has highlighted the importance of early identification of weak banks: when problems are …

central banks and the IMF. …

The purpose of this paper is to study the origins of banking crises in sub-Saharan Africa, drawing upon the experience … these crises. The conclusions underscore that the banking crises examined did not represent an entirely special case … several of their features were nonetheless specific to this part of the world. These banking crises were the very prototype of …

The increased presence of foreign banks in a country's domestic banking system necessitates the development of … challenges which foreign banks bring to emerging market banking supervisors are also discussed. The paper also provides surveys … supervision, quality of home-country supervision, memoranda of understanding (MOUs), and "ringfencing" of banks. A number of …

assessment of the soundness of Venezuela's banking sector, based on a diagnosis of its structural and transient shortcomings …. While the Venezuelan banking sector appears sound under current favorable economic conditions, it remains significantly … vulnerable to cyclical downturns-which have been severe in the past. Banks are particularly exposed to interest rate and credit …

this period. Using quarterly bank-level data covering 2002-08, we find evidence that liquidity-constrained banks have … sharper decline in lending during contractionary monetary policies and that crowding-out effect disappears more for banks with … a retail-banking focus when fiscal policies are prudent.The results are statistically weak, suggesting that bank lending …