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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Billings, Robert
Otros Autores: Gonzalez-Hermosillo, Brenda, Pazarbasioglu, Ceyla
Formato: Revista
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 1996.
Colección:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 1996/142
Acceso en línea:Full text available on IMF