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 …

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 …

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 …

The paper provides an empirical analysis of aggregate banking system ratios during systemic banking crises. Drawing … discriminate between sound and unsound banking systems. We also estimate a duration model to investigate whether the ratios help … determine the timing of a banking crisis. Despite some weaknesses in the available data, our findings offer initial evidence …

financial system is still weak. The crisis has set back progress toward a strong, competitive banking system for the future. The … structured corrective action regime and a unified administration regime for all banks, with broad powers for the administrator …

We bring to bear a hand-collected dataset of executive turnovers in U.S. banks to test the efficacy of market … discipline in a 'laboratory setting' by analyzing banks that are less likely to be subject to government support. Specifically …