bank lending and risk-taking channels of monetary policy by exploiting – Italian's unique – credit and security registers …

, policymakers, and bank managers for better decision making. …

This paper investigates the determinants of banking system fragility by underlining the impact of bank liberalization …

. Building on these findings, we show that asset encumbrance indicators carry predictive information for bank-specific crises as …

the funding liquidity of liabilities, for 2882 bank holding companies over 2002 to 2014. The aggregate LMI decreases from … system in early 2007. Moreover, LMI predicts a bank's stock market crash probability and borrowing decisions from the … government during the financial crisis. The LMI is therefore informative about both individual bank liquidity and the liquidity …

Using count data on the number of bank failures in US states during the 1960 to 2006 period, this paper endeavors to … instruments to absorb potential endogeneity between the number of bank failures and economic and regulatory conditions. Results … suggest that bank failures are not merely self-fulfilling prophecies but relate systematically to inflation as well as to …