Bank insolvency: bad luck, bad policy, or bad banking? (original) (raw)
1996, Annual World Bank conference on development …
Since the late 1970s bank insolvencies have become increasingly common. Where these failures are systemic, they can drain a country's financial, institutional, and policy resources-resulting in large losses, misallocated resources, and slower growth. Using a new database covering some eighty-six episodes of insolvency, this article examines the causes and effects of these crises and how governments have responded. It finds that both macroeconomic and microeconomic factors have figured in bank crises and that, based on the criteria developed here, few governments have responded well to these episodes. To better manage insolvencies, policymakers must develop a regulatory framework that allows banks to respond more robustly to shocks and ensures proper management and oversight. That bankers have not regularly planned for shocks suggests that they have not had the incentive to do so.
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