We show that U.S. banks do not engage in zombie lending to firms of deteriorating profitability, irrespective of … for banks and nonbanks, and an empirical setting with quasirandom shocks to firm profitability. Although credit migrates … from banks to nonbanks, zombie firms file for bankruptcy at an elevated rate, suggesting that nonbanks' zombie lending does …

Using a large panel of US banks over the period 2008-2013, this paper proposes an early warning framework to identify … model by minimizing the error of misclassification of bankrupt banks. Also, it emphasizes better prediction of failure of … banks because it delivers in mean the highest error type II …

large universe of US banks over a complete market cycle and running under a K-Fold Cross validation. A hybrid model which …