multivariate probability model-and their application to studying the determinants of banking crises. The use of these models to … provide early warnings for crises is also reviewed, as are studies of the economic effects of banking crises and of the …

Many empirical studies of banking crises have employed "banking crisis" (BC) indicators constructedusing primarily … information on government actions undertaken in response to bank distress. Weformulate a simple theoretical model of a banking …

When a country's banking system becomes more linked to the global banking network, does that system get more or less … prone to a banking crisis? Using model simulations and econometric estimates based on a world-wide dataset, we find an M …-shaped relationship between financial stability of a country's banking sector and its interconnectedness. In particular, for banking …

on in the future. Banking sector problems in Russia, Turkey, and a few Latin American countries occurred within the …

This paper presents a new database on the timing of systemic banking crises and policy responses to resolve them. The … database covers the universe of systemic banking crises for the period 1970-2007, with detailed data on crisis containment and …. The database extends and builds on the Caprio, Klingebiel, Laeven, and Noguera (2005) banking crisis database, and is the …

of banking distress in Europe. We identify a set of indicators and thresholds that can help to distinguish sound banks …The global financial crisis has highlighted the importance of early identification of weak banks: when problems are …

This paper provides a framework to assess the benefits and costs of intervening in a banking crisis. Intervention … resolution strategy. Dominant factors affecting net benefits are the relative size of the banking system and the loss liquidation …

The purpose of this paper is to study the origins of banking crises in sub-Saharan Africa, drawing upon the experience … these crises. The conclusions underscore that the banking crises examined did not represent an entirely special case … several of their features were nonetheless specific to this part of the world. These banking crises were the very prototype of …

This paper uses a Binary Classification Tree (BCT) model to analyze banking crises in 50 emerging market and developing … countries during 1990-2005. The BCT identifies key indicators and their threshold values at which vulnerability to banking … risk, poor financial soundness, and macroeconomic instability are key vulnerabilities triggering banking crises. The main …