develops a methodology to detect problems at the individual bank level in an effort to identify those firms with financial … facilitate bank monitoring tasks, as well as some disaggregated subcomponents that are intended to display the relative …

. At the transition point there is a jumpin risk taking, as private banks do not internalize the social costs of bank … data complementing existing evidence that financial instability is highest when bank control is capturedby small lobbies. …

imperfectly elastic supply of bank equity stemming from financial market segmentation. In our model, equity is costly and serves … and the design of bank stress testing. …

deteriorate further, which could require significant bank recapitalisation. Updated bottom-up (i.e. loan by loan) stress tests are … assumptions should be made public. The creation of the Bank Asset Management Company (BAMC) should allow recognition of problems …

This paper studies the impact of European bank mergers and acquisitions on changes in key safety and soundness measures …

drawing useful lessons for regulatory reform. We argue that an important contributor to positive bank performance was a solid …

removing barriers to bank entry on bank competition and economic growth. As governments were not concerned about systemic … stability in this period, we are able to isolate the effects of bank competition from those of state implicit guarantees. We … find that the introduction of free banking laws stimulated the creation of new banks and led to more bank failures. Our …