The paper examines the impact of the costs of complying with IAS and Basel II regulations on the net interest margin and operating costs of Italian banks using bank level data for the period 2001-2007. More specifically, the paper intends to ascertain whether: a) IAS and Basel II compliance...

This paper analyzes the impact of rules-based bank insolvency resolution on real economic growth. Resolving insolvent banks can positively affect the real economy by overcoming moral hazard problems and improving banks’ credit allocation and monitoring. We propose a new indicator to measure...

Our concern in this paper is two-fold: first to see whether the determinants of bank distress and failure have been any different in the GFC from previous years: second to see whether simple measures of capital adequacy outperform their risk-weighted counterparts as predictors, despite the focus...

The paper analyses the main features of non-performing loans (NPLs) in Bulgaria and qualitative assessment of the varieties of the banks’ strategies for their management with regard to the related risk and the consequences for the banks. On one hand, the emergence of NPLs is discussed from...

By introducing a structure of the balance sheets of the banks, which takes into account their bilateral exposures in terms of stocks or lendings, we get a structural model for default analysis. This model allows distinguishing the exogenous and endogenous default dependence. We prove the...

E cikk az új, feltehetően 2007-ben életbe lépő Bázel II. tőkeegyezményben a hitelkockázatok számszerűsítésére alkalmazott közgazdasági modellt és annak matematikai hátterét mutatja be. A modell olyan leegyszerűsítő feltevéseket használ a csődfolyamatok modellezésére...

This paper analyzes the incentive effects of special bank resolution schemes which were introduced during the recent financial crisis. These schemes allow regulators to take control over a systemically important financial institution before bankruptcy. We ask how special resolution schemes...

The paper studies the determinants of international differences in household indebtedness, and inquires whether indebtedness is associated with increased "financial fragility", as measured by the sensitivity of household arrears and insolvencies to macroeconomic shocks. It also investigates...

The legislative changes introduced in the Italian pre-insolvency law for corporate crisis management provide the opportunity to reconsider the question related to the bank’s responsibility in the case of restructuring agreements’ execution