A simple index of banking fragility: application to Indian data

Determinants of banking fragility

Database Summarization: Application to a Commercial Banking Data Set

In this paper, an original approach to database summarization is applied to a massive data set provided by a bank marketing department. The summarization process is based on an incremental and hierarchical conceptual clustering algorithm, building a summary hierarchy from database records. Levels of the hierarchy provides some views with different granularities over the entire database. Each su...

Credit booms, financial fragility and banking crises

Using a new country-level panel database, we explore effect of capital inflow surges, credit booms and financial fragility on the probability of banking crises. We find that booms increase the probability of a crisis only in relatively fragile financial systems. © 2015 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/lice...

Optimal Banking Contracts and Financial Fragility

We study a finite-depositor version of the Diamond-Dybvig model of financial intermediation in which the bank and all depositors observe withdrawals as they occur. We derive the (constrained) efficient allocation of resources in closed-form and show that this allocation provides liquidity insurance to depositors. The contractual arrangement that decentralizes this allocation has debt-like featu...

Effects of Nonperforming Loans on Endogenous Banking Money Creation and Banking Sector Fragility in Iran

In recent years, a gap between banks’ deposits and loans has been emerging and rather continuously growing. Also, loans to liabilities ratio and liquidity multiplier have been decreased and increased, respectively. Furthermore, a kind of stickiness has been observed in interbank interest rate. The objective of this paper is to explain the mentioned behaviors by investigating the effects of nonp...