We propose a model that links the conditional probability of bank failure to insolvency and liquidity risks, and show that liquidity risk affects bank failures through systematic and idiosyncratic channels. Empirical results based on U.S. bank data between 1985 and 2011 show that this model...

We calculate the approximate measures of the liquidity coverage ratio and the net stable funding ratio of the Basel III liquidity risk framework using the call report data of U.S. banks. We find that the new measures have little predicting power of bank failures when compared with traditional...