Philippines, and Thailand. He applies this technique to the precrisis period 1992-96. Assessing a bank's overall performance … requires assessing both efficiency and risk factors, so Laeven also introduces a measure of risk taking. This risk measure …

The proposed SDN documents the evolution of bank size and activities over the past 20 years. It discusses whether this … to which bank size and market-based activities contribute to systemic risk. The paper concludes with policy messages in …

This paper identifies the various channels that give rise to a "sovereign-bank nexus" whereby the financial health of …

, which also triggered a temporary increase in the government protection of non-deposit liabilities and bank assets. In most …