Banking System Fragility : Likelihood Versus Timing of Failure; An Application to the Mexican Financial Crisis /

This paper tests empirically the proposition that bank fragility is determined by bank-specific factors, macroeconomic conditions and potential contagion effects. The methodology allows for the variables that determine bank failure to differ from those that influence banks' time to failure (or...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Billings, Robert
Other Authors: Gonzalez-Hermosillo, Brenda, Pazarbasioglu, Ceyla
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 1996.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 1996/142
Online Access:Full text available on IMF