This article explores the effect of delays in updating prudential regulation on countries' likelihood of experiencing … banking crises, and it disentangles the impact of different aspects of regulation on crisis onset. I argue that delays in … revising banks' prudential regulation allow banks to adopt risky behavior. This increases a country's vulnerability to systemic …

regulation on the probability of a crisis. We test this relationship by applying a Probit model of a non-linear specification to …: it rises as regulation stringency moves from low to medium levels and falls from medium to high levels. Countries located …