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 …

on in the future. Banking sector problems in Russia, Turkey, and a few Latin American countries occurred within the …

financial sector should be strengthened. The key areas for the banking sector include licensing, remedial actions, and …

This study looks at the first two years of the banking crisis that erupted in Indonesia in late 1997. It finds that the … banking sector was weak at the outset, and that governance problems intensified the crisis and seriously delayed its … in the costs of resolution. By end-1999, the critical elements to reconstruct the banking system were in place, and the …

multivariate probability model-and their application to studying the determinants of banking crises. The use of these models to … provide early warnings for crises is also reviewed, as are studies of the economic effects of banking crises and of the …

cushions that can protect them and their clients from a sudden reversal of conditions. Paraguay’s banking system safety net …

sheets. Banking is characterized by high real interest rates, large spreads, and a limited appetite for lending. Stress tests … indicate that the banking system is relatively resilient to the direct effects of individual shocks, with credit risk having …