At the time they occurred, the savings and loan insolvencies were considered the worst financial crisis since the Great …

This paper discusses recent bank runs in seven transition economies (Russia, Bulgaria, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia …, Lithuania and Romania), comparing them against the older US experience and theoretical research. Bank runs seem to usually be … information based. For example, improvements in bank transparency such as new accounting rules can reveal a bank’s insolvency and …

At the time they occurred, the savings and loan insolvencies were considered the worst financial crisis since the Great …

Spanish savings banks (Cajas de Ahorro) have had a long and distinguished history over more than 100 years of existence …

The paper employs a unique identification strategy that links survey data on household consumption expenditure to bank … level data in order to estimate the effects of bank financial distress on consumer credit and consumption expenditures …

bank to nonbank finance, including trade credits and barter trade, generating an externality on banks' interest rates. The …

Using a unique dataset, which combines bank organizational variables, information on lending techniques, firms' credit … crisis period. Our main findings suggest that the variables shaping the organization of a bank in its lending activity to non …