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This paper links the current sub-prime mortgage crisis to a decline in lending standards associated with the rapid expansion of this market. We show that lending standards declined more in areas that experienced larger credit booms and house price increases. We also find that the underlying...
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pricing containing information on fees and charges associated with various banking services—collected as part of the United …
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banking, corporate, and public sectors show an improvement beginning in 2002-03, followed by a major deterioration since 2 …
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in real time. In this paper, systemic risk is defined as the conditional probability of a systemic banking crisis and …
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The paper examines recent episodes of government involvement in corporate debt restructurings. It argues that corporate debt restructuring is an important step toward recovery from a financial crisis. We then discuss the rationale for, and modalities of, the state intervention in corporate debt...
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The paper provides an empirical analysis of aggregate banking system ratios during systemic banking crises. Drawing … discriminate between sound and unsound banking systems. We also estimate a duration model to investigate whether the ratios help … determine the timing of a banking crisis. Despite some weaknesses in the available data, our findings offer initial evidence …
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The purpose of this paper is to study the origins of banking crises in sub-Saharan Africa, drawing upon the experience … these crises. The conclusions underscore that the banking crises examined did not represent an entirely special case … several of their features were nonetheless specific to this part of the world. These banking crises were the very prototype of …
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respond in a timely manner and efficiently enough to prevent the escalation of the banking crisis and spurred the adoption of … triple banking, currency, and fiscal crisis. …
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This paper proposes a stylized sequencing of banking supervision and bank restructuring measures designed to complement …
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This paper presents a new database on the timing of systemic banking crises and policy responses to resolve them. The … database covers the universe of systemic banking crises for the period 1970-2007, with detailed data on crisis containment and …. The database extends and builds on the Caprio, Klingebiel, Laeven, and Noguera (2005) banking crisis database, and is the …
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