This paper investigates contagion between bank risk and sovereign risk in Europe over the period 2006-2011. Since this … period covers various stages of the banking and sovereign crisis, it offers a fertile ground to analyze bank/sovereign risk … explained by common factors, using CDS spreads at the bank and at the sovereign level. Moreover, we investigate the determinants …

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 …

Accurate measurement of bank risk is a matter of considerable importance for bank regulation and supervision. Current …. Market monitoring of bank risk has typically been tested by regressing market-based risk indicators on various benchmark … indicators (such as accounting ratios and credit ratings) to detect whether the market tracks bank risk. This approach overlooks …

Our concern in this paper is two-fold: first to see whether the determinants of bank distress and failure have been any …-weighted counterparts as predictors, despite the focus on the later in the Basel framework. This paper examines bank distress within a large … predict bank failures and draw inferences about the stability of contributing bank characteristics. Our models incorporate …

coordination of capital and risk adjustments depends on the amount of capital the bank holds in excess of the regulatory minimum …

The great financial turmoil that started 2007 has brought bank regulation back into the political debate. There is talk … this mechanism, fire sales can lead to contagion, and one failing bank can cause several more to follow suit. …

and risk adjustments depends on the amount of capital the bank holds in excess of the regulatory minimum (the so …