institutions will be highlighted. The expertise and knowledge with which a central bank is endowed in its role as overseer of the …

Recent financial crises and especially large corporate bankruptcies, have led bank managements and financial … authorities to follow and monitor both financial and real sector risks, and to focus on firm failures. Bank of International … the Central Bank. Cost sensitive learning was given special attention in the analysis. …

decreasing volumes in the interbank market and to an intense recapitalization process. We show that the marginal effect of a bank …

correlations between bank stock returns almost doubled in 2000s in comparison to 1990s. The correlations decreased somewhat after … market share of bank pairs, the amount of non-performing loans, herding behavior of banks, and volatilities of macro …

) on bank capital, risk, and performance. We find that high risk weighted asset ratios tend to attract supervisory … intervention. Sanctions whose cause lies at the core of bank safety and soundness curtail the risk-weighted asset ratio, but … weaknesses appear to be well-timed and to restrain further increases in the risk-weighted assets ratio without impairing bank …

evidence of a highly significant negative relationship between monetary policy rates and bank-risk taking. This finding remains …