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A Tale of Three Countries: Recovery after Banking Crises
Darvas, Zsolt - 2012
Iceland, Ireland and Latvia experienced similar developments before the crisis, such as sharp increases in banks … harder than any other country in the world. Ireland also suffered heavily, while Iceland came out from the crisis with the …: currency collapse in Iceland but not in Latvia, letting banks fail in Iceland but not in Ireland, and the introduction of …
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Spinning out of control: Iceland in crisis
2009
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The collapse of a country
Daníelsson, Jón - 2009
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Iceland's financial crisis in an international perspective
Halldorsson, Olafur G. - 2010
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Explaining bank failures in the United States: The role of self-fulfilling prophecies, systemic risk, banking regulation, and contagion
Herger, Nils - 2008
Using count data on the number of bank failures in US states during the 1960 to 2006 period, this paper endeavors to establish how far sources of economic risk (recessions, high interest rates, inflation) or differences in solvency and branching regulation can explain some of the fragility in...
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Reputational contagion and optimal regulatory forbearance
Morrison, Alan D.; White, Lucy - 2010
This paper examines common regulation as cause of interbank contagion. Studies based on the correlation of bank assets and the extent of interbank lending may underestimate the likelihood of contagion because they do not incorporate the fact that banks have a common regulator. In our model, the...
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The Failure of Northern Rock: A multi-dimensional Case Study
Congdon, Tim; Goodhart, Charles A.E.; Eisenbeis, Robert A. - 2009
In August 2007 the United Kingdom experienced its first bank run in over 140 years. Although Northern Rock was not a particularly large bank (it was at the time ranked 7th in terms of assets) it was nevertheless a significant retail bank and a substantial mortgage lender. In fact, ten years...
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Prudential regulation, the "credit crunch" and the ineffectiveness of monetary policy: Evidence from Japan
Watanabe, Wako - 2004
The underlying causes of sharp declines in bank lending during recessions in large developed economies, as exemplified by the U.S. in the early 1990s and Japan in the late 1990s, are still being debated due to a lack of any convincing identification strategy of the supply side capital-lending...
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Statistical challenges of stress test financial stability assessments
Kupiec, Paul H. - 2020
Banking system stress tests are a key component of IMF/World Bank financial stability assessments.
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Systemic risk in a network model of interbank markets with central bank activity
Georg, Co-Pierre; Poschmann, Jenny - 2010
The breakdown of the interbank money markets in the face of the recent financial crisis has forced central banks and governments to take extraordinary measures to sustain financial stability. In this paper we investigate which influence central bank activity has on interbank markets. In our...
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