TY  - BOOK
AU  - Poghosyan,Tigran
AU  - Cihak,Martin
AU  - Poghosyan,Tigran
TI  - Distress in European Banks: An Analysis Basedon a New Dataset 
T2  - IMF Working Papers; Working Paper
SN  - 1451871562 :
SN  - 1018-5941
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Washington, D.C.
PB  - International Monetary Fund
KW  - Bank Distress
KW  - imf
KW  - Bank Failure
KW  - Banking
KW  - Contagion
KW  - Early Intervention
KW  - Early Warning System
KW  - Germany
KW  - Italy
KW  - United States
N2  - The global financial crisis has highlighted the importance of early identification of weak banks: when problems are identified late, solutions are much more costly. Until recently, Europe has seen only a small number of outright bank failures, which made the estimation of early warning models for bank supervision very difficult. This paper presents a unique database of individual bank distress across the European Union from mid-1990s to 2008. Using this data set, we analyze the causes of banking distress in Europe. We identify a set of indicators and thresholds that can help to distinguish sound banks from those vulnerable to financial distress
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