An important question in banking is how strict supervision affects bank lending and in turn local business activity … the thrift regulator (OTS) to analyze economic links between strict supervision, bank lending and business activity. We … capital but can also correct deficiencies in bank management and lending practices, leading to more lending and a reallocation …

Shadow banking is a broad concept. A possible definition is that it comprises non-bank institutions which undertake … bank-like activities. Another characteristic is that the sector is overall less regulated. Therefore there are still …

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 …

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 …