Purpose: The recurrence of banking crises throughout the 1980s and 1990s, and in the more recent 2008-09 global financial crisis, has led to an expanding empirical literature on crisis explanation and prediction. This paper provides an analytical review of proxies for and important determinants...

In the wake of the global financial crisis of 2008, shadow banking has been widely identified as one of the major sources of financial instability, and its regulation has become the subject of much international debate. Existing studies, however, have focused on advanced economies, such the US...

This report succinctly compares, with tables and diagrams, the systemic risk regulatory regimes that have been put in place since 2008 in the US, the UK, the EU and Canada. It describes systemic risk as a problem of a different order from the kinds of investor protection and efficient market...