See White (1991) for a discussion of the role of lax government supervision in the thrift debacle of the 1980s. B anking is one of the more closely supervised industries in the United States, reflecting the view that bank failures have stronger adverse effects on economic activity than other business failures. Bank failures can disrupt the flow of credit to local communities (Gilbert and Kochin...

We examine the roles of idiosyncratic and systemic funding liquidity risks in bank failures. We estimate a discrete-time hazard model of bank failure using data of U.S. commercial banks between 1985 and 2004, and examine its out-of-sample forecasting performance between 2005 and 2011. The out-of-sample performance comparison shows this model outperforms typical bank failure prediction models. W...

The author develops the first comparative empirical study of bank failures during the nineties between East Asia and Latin America using bank-level data, in order to address the following two questions: (i) To what extent did individual bank conditions explain bank failures? (ii) Did mainly the weakest banks, in terms of their fundamentals, fail in the crisis countries? The main results for Eas...