The global financial crisis underlined that sound and effective bank regulation is vital to financial stability … outbreak. The crisis reflected the failure of regulatory authorities to keep pace with financial innovation. Bank supervision … had been weak by any measure. Supervisors did not conduct regular onsite bank inspections or examinations of sufficient …

The main objective of this paper is to suggest reform measures to address the gaps and weaknesses in emerging Asia …'s financial regulatory and supervisory systems, on the basis of lessons drawn from the global crisis. For emerging Asia, the …-ranging financial reforms, emerging Asia will face dramatic changes in the global financial landscape. The region's authorities need to …

no comparable political and legal integration. Nevertheless, Asia can draw useful lessons from European experiences in …

framework were more likely to require public support during the crisis. We instrument some characteristics of bank balance … sheets with these prudential indicators to investigate how they affect bank resilience. The share of non-interest income …

This paper distils three lessons for bank regulation from the experience of the 2009-12 euro-area financial crisis …. First, it highlights the key role that sovereign debt exposures of banks have played in the feedback loop between bank and …

develops a methodology to detect problems at the individual bank level in an effort to identify those firms with financial … facilitate bank monitoring tasks, as well as some disaggregated subcomponents that are intended to display the relative …

examining financial soundness and identifying its determinants. Using data from selected developing economies in Asia, South …

Japanese banking crisis. By leveraging a unique dataset merging firm-level financial statements and bank balance sheets, the …