The financial crisis has exposed deep-rooted problems with banks' financial reporting. Long neglected in analyses of bank performance, this article recommends a new focus on bank cash flows. We identify weaknesses and deficiencies in the existing literature on banking performance. Short case...

Does the 2007/08 market crisis herald the end of risk modeling and the empirical method? This paper supports the hypothesis that recent risk modeling problems were caused by the use of inappropriate risk models which are fixable rather than fundamentally flawed. An extensive analysis including...

Mortgage defaults and home foreclosures remain a growing problem that undermines the nascent US economic recovery. Delinquencies continue to skyrocket, up 300 percent since the beginning of the crisis, and the contagion has spread to prime loans where delinquencies have risen to over 11 percent...

The financial sector is heavily regulated in order to prevent financial crises. The recent crisis showed how ineffective this regulation and other types of government intervention were in achieving this aim. We argue that the crisis was primarily caused by housing price bubbles. These occurred...

Our study summarises the experiences of earlier banking crises on the basis of international data. Following a review of the tools which can be used in the initial, acute phase of banking crises and a description of the lessons drawn from their application to date, we examine the macroeconomic...

The German banking system came under pressure during the financial crisis, not least due to its significant exposure to toxic assets which originated in the US. In the short run, the stability of the system has been achieved, in large part through substantial government support measures....

The paper discusses the reform of capital regulation of banks in the wake of the financial crisis of 2007/2009. Whereas the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision seems to go for marginal changes here and there, the paper calls for a thorough overhaul, moving away from risk calibration and...

Romania has not passed through a crisis as the existing one in the last 10 years. Despite the unfavorable conditions of economy, Romania, however, has sufficient advantages in comparison with other states which have been more seriously affected by the global crisis. Therefore, one of the...

The economic crisis which is affecting all companies and public institutions has proven once more that the banks are the primary force for an economic growth or for a recession. This major economic crisis has begun, in the first instance, at the banks level, there for in the banking system has...

The Romanian banking system is on the edge of becoming a mature one. The crisis could be the opportunity to make the final transformation. Even if the last year represented a decrease of its profitability, the chance to be closer to the Western banking systems is still on the horizon. The main...