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 …

be relieved. This would be facilitated by more efficient insolvency procedures and further development of non-bank …

This article analyzes bank bankruptcy regimes across 142 countries. By employing factor analysis, we identify five main … dimensions of bank bankruptcy frameworks: (1) difficulty of forbearance and ease of court appeal, (2) availability of supervisory … bank bankruptcy frameworks: a court-led and administrative bank bankruptcy regime. Administrative bank bankruptcy regimes …