Recessions associated with banking crises are deeper and longer than other recessions. While banking crises are often believed to reflect defects in regulation and supervision, regulatory and supervisory frameworks may also determine the shape of subsequent recoveries. Combining new databases...

This paper looks at the effects of International Monetary Fund (IMF) lending programs on banking crises in a large sample of developing countries, over the period 1970-2010. The endogeneity of the IMF intervention is addressed by adopting an instrumental variable strategy and a propensity score...

As a result of the crisis of confidence in the financial markets caused by events that took place in the years 2007-2008 and later fiscal problems in the peripheral countries of the European Union, banks lost their ability of refinancing based on unsecured interbank deposits. This contributed to...

At the height of the Global Financial Crisis (GFC), Hungary announced changes to its deposit insurance system on October 8, 2008. The government said that it would increase the deposit-insurance cap from HUF 6 million to HUF 13 million (about USD 31,000 to about USD 68,000), the equivalent of...