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 … outside the bank as depositors rushed to withdraw their deposits. There was always a fear that this could spark a systemic run …

This paper empirically investigates the causes of bank failures in Japan and Indonesia. Using logistic regression … analysis of financial ratios, we explore the usefulness of domestic bank failure prediction models with a cross-country model …, deposits and in some cases the ratio of non-performing loans, are the most significant predictors of bank failure in both Japan …

is to use a plurality of risk scores when assessing bank vulnerability. …

risk factors, and uses measures of bank sensitivity with respect to these risk factors. We use two sets of sensitivity … as if no market prices of equity were available for the bank the forecast is made for. We do this for banks for which …

The inability of most bank merger studies to control for hidden bailouts may lead to biased results. In this study, we … employ a unique data set of approximately 1,000 mergers to analyze the determinants of bank mergers. We use data on the …

Outright bank failures without prior indication of financial instability are very rare. Supervisory authorities monitor … regarded as troubled to varying degrees before outright closure. But to our knowledge virtually all studies that predict bank … failures neglect the ordinal nature of bank distress. Exploiting the distress database of the Deutsche Bundesbank we …

spread of a bank by about two basis points. We further find that some banks have already reached a size that makes them too …