This paper presents a new database on the timing of systemic banking crises and policy responses to resolve them. The … database covers the universe of systemic banking crises for the period 1970-2007, with detailed data on crisis containment and …. The database extends and builds on the Caprio, Klingebiel, Laeven, and Noguera (2005) banking crisis database, and is the …

A common legacy of banking crises is a large increase in government debt, as fiscal resources are used to shore up the … banking system. Do crisis response strategies that commit more fiscal resources lower the economic costs of crises? Based on … evidence from a sample of 40 banking crises we find that the answer is negative. In fact, policies that are riskier for the …

Banking crises are usually followed by a decline in credit and growth. Is this because crises tend to take place during … economic downturns, or do banking sector problems have independent negative effects on the economy? To answer this question we … examine industrial sectors with differing needs for financing. If banking crises have an exogenous detrimental effect on real …

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 …

United Kingdom, the euro area, and Japan during the recent crisis on interbank credit and liquidity risk premia …. Announcements of interest rate cuts, liquidity support, liability guarantees, and recapitalization were associated with a reduction …

arrangements were in place, which highlights the importance of building a suitable framework for preventing and managing banking …

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 …

The paper provides an empirical analysis of aggregate banking system ratios during systemic banking crises. Drawing … discriminate between sound and unsound banking systems. We also estimate a duration model to investigate whether the ratios help … determine the timing of a banking crisis. Despite some weaknesses in the available data, our findings offer initial evidence …

Did the occurrence of systemic banking crises in the 1990s and 2000s significantly alter the behavior of banks in the … impact of crises on four sets of financial indicators of bank behavior-profitability, maturity preference, credit supply, and …