This study examines cost and profit efficiencies of banking sectors in the 27 European Union countries over the period 2004-2010 using the stochastic frontier analysis (SFA). The study divides the EU sample into four sub-samples; the entire EU, the old and the new EU countries as well as the...

Measuring interconnectedness in a banking system and identifying the transmission channels of systemic risk is a main issue for the analysis of financial stability. We develop a methodology based on conditional tail risk networks to assess the channels of transmission in a banking system, and to...

1. The Euro Area Banking System: Where Do We Stand? -- 2. The Main Challenges Facing the Euro Area Banking System -- 3. Non-performing Loans in the Euro Area -- 4. Level 3 Assets and Sovereign Exposure -- 5. Progress on the First Two Pillars of the Banking Union -- 6. The Third Pillar of the...

The 2007-2009 financial crisis highlighted the vulnerabilities in the global banking system and shifted research focus to the study of systemic risk. Network theory and agent-based simulation have been used to investigate complex banking systems that would be difficult to model analytically....