The recent financial crisis has clearly highlighted the importance of the timely identification of weak banks. This … paper introduces and analyses a unique sample of EU banks, which faced distress during 2008-2015 and provides evidence … regarding the relationship between distress and bank-specific and macroeconomic variables, paying particular attention to …

The history of banking provides a view that banks are often a liability to stable economies and their behavior can … bailouts. What is the future of capitalism without banks, can new e-financial institutions take their place? …

The analysis of bank failures enables the understanding of the relevant financial and economic factors underlying the … bank's solvability and survival in a sound and competitive banking system, allowing a preventive behavior for bank … management and regulators.This research is focused on the study of banks' failures and on the understanding of the crisis period …

We examine the link between bank competition and financial stability using the recent financial crisis as the setting …. We utilize variation in banking competition at the state level and find that banks facing less competition are more …

This paper empirically examines whether better governance necessarily reduces financial distress for banks.We have … studied 49 banks among the TOP 100 European banks during the period 2006 to 2013 and performed a panel probit regression … meetings per year do matter to explain bank distress, giving credence to the extent of increasing supervision and regulation …

corresponding investment losses from delisted publicly traded bank stocks strongly reduces the rate of firm survival, particularly …

This paper finds that a decline in bank equity or liquidity reduces liquidation values of bank-owned real estate and … accelerates the pace of asset sales. Buyers of these assets earn significant returns for providing liquidity to banks, as prices … tend to rebound sharply after sales by illiquid banks. Lower liquidation values also depress the prices of nearby real …