The purpose of this research is to examine the international insertion of Brazilian banking system, in comparison with the South Korean and Mexican experiences. Since the second half of the 1990s, these countries deepened the financial integration between their economies and international...

The purpose of this research is to examine the international insertion of Brazilian banking system, in comparison with the South Korean and Mexican experiences. Since the second half of the 1990s, these countries deepened the financial integration between their economies and international...

By using bank-level data pertaining to the period of the Showa Depression in Japan, we examine whether banking panics caused solvent banks to close down and fail. We find that bank fundamentals were weakly related to the failures during the panics. This result implies that the confusion on the...

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 resolution. Although a strategy was put in place over the...

The third pillar of the Basel II highlights the role of market discipline in easing the existing pressure on traditional monitoring measures like capital requirement and government supervision. This study test the effectiveness of market discipline in inducing prudential risk management...

This paper presents a coherent framework for identifying Systemically Important Financial Institutions (SIFI) and assessing the overall banking system's vulnerability to systemic phenomena from the viewpoint of banking system as a complex network of interconnected nodes generating pair-wise...

This research paper will discuss loan agreements between corporations and banks (as a financing institution). Loan agreements contain provisions which strongly protect the interest of the bank (lender). This is justified, considering the banks will be the one whose investment will be at stake....

The purpose of this paper is to explore determinants of bank bailouts by the Bank of Japan in response to the panic of 1927. Using a cross-sectional data set consisting of observations on 1364 ordinary banks, I examine whether lending or borrowing in the call market affected the likelihood that...

The purpose of this paper is to explore whether the Bank of Japan provided the special loans for insolvent banks against the panic of 1927. This paper uses a cross-sectional data set consisting of observations on 1364 ordinary banks. The logit model regression at this paper provides each bank's...