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 …

recommendations of the 2004 FSAP. Many improvements have been made to bank and securities supervision. The banking sector as a whole …

This study examines the recent marked slowdown in bank credit to the private sector in Latin America. Based on the …, changes in bank balance sheets are examined to determine whether the credit slowdown is merely a reflection of a slowdown in … recent studies of credit slowdowns in East Asia and Finland, the paper investigates possible causes for the slowdown in three …

wage and credit growth, which are driving the demand for imports. The bold resumption of structural reforms should over …

). Successful implementation of fiscal adjustment, effective use of capital controls, and financial sector restructuring have …

sector of emerging economies and help reestablish financial stability and foreign capital inflows once financial stress …

Periods of banking distress are often followed by sizable and long-lasting contractions in bank credit. They may be … capital-constrained banks, a "credit crunch". This paper develops a bank model to study credit crunches and their real effects …. In this model, banks maintain a precautionary level of capital that serves as a smoothing mechanism to avert disruptions …

reduction in such access would require changes in the banks' liquidity management strategy. Capital levels, although above …