This paper presents a new database of systemic banking crises for the period 1970-2009. While there are many …

on in the future. Banking sector problems in Russia, Turkey, and a few Latin American countries occurred within the …

This study looks at the first two years of the banking crisis that erupted in Indonesia in late 1997. It finds that the … banking sector was weak at the outset, and that governance problems intensified the crisis and seriously delayed its … in the costs of resolution. By end-1999, the critical elements to reconstruct the banking system were in place, and the …

This paper provides a framework to assess the benefits and costs of intervening in a banking crisis. Intervention … resolution strategy. Dominant factors affecting net benefits are the relative size of the banking system and the loss liquidation …

multivariate probability model-and their application to studying the determinants of banking crises. The use of these models to … provide early warnings for crises is also reviewed, as are studies of the economic effects of banking crises and of the …

Many empirical studies of banking crises have employed "banking crisis" (BC) indicators constructedusing primarily … information on government actions undertaken in response to bank distress. Weformulate a simple theoretical model of a banking …

We update the widely used banking crises database by Laeven and Valencia (2008, 2010) with new information on recent … banking, currency, and sovereign debt crises during the period 1970-2011. The data show some striking differences in policy …

In episodes of significant banking distress or perceived systemic risk to the financial system, policymakers have often … restructuring programs and may increase moral hazard going forward. Using a sample of 42 episodes of banking crises, this paper …