Cross-Country Empirical Studies of Systemic Bank Distress : A Survey

A rapidly growing empirical literature is studying the causes and consequences of bank fragility in contemporary economies. The authors reviews the two basic methodologies adopted in cross-country empirical studies-the signals approach and the multivariate probability model-and their application to...

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Main Authors: Demirgüç-Kunt, Aslı, Detragiache, Enrica
Format: Policy Research Working Paper
Language:English
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2012
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Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2005/09/6292217/cross-country-empirical-studies-systemic-bank-distress-survey
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/8266