This book offers a critical look at prominent theories of financial crisis to try to understand how prepared the profession is for identifying the next financial crisis. An analysis of the first financial crisis of the twenty-first century serves as a starting point for rethinking the efficacy...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of bank branch location on the likelihood of bank failure during the most recent financial crisis. Design/methodology/approach – This paper estimates the probit regression to identify the causes of bank failures and attempts to...