The Anatomy of Banking Crises

April 1, 2008

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Rupa Duttagupta, and Paul Cashin. The Anatomy of Banking Crises, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2008) accessed November 12, 2024

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Summary

This paper uses a Binary Classification Tree (BCT) model to analyze banking crises in 50 emerging market and developing countries during 1990-2005. The BCT identifies key indicators and their threshold values at which vulnerability to banking crisis increases. The three conditions identified as crisis-prone-(i) very high inflation, (ii) highly dollarized bank deposits combined with nominal depreciation or low liquidity, and (iii) low bank profitability-highlight that foreign currency risk, poor financial soundness, and macroeconomic instability are key vulnerabilities triggering banking crises. The main results survive under alternative robustness checks, confirming the importance of the BCT approach for monitoring banking system vulnerabilities.

Subject: Banking crises, Commercial banks, Depreciation, Financial crises, Foreign exchange

Keywords: Banking crises By Year, Banking crises with a binary classification tree, Banking crisis, Liability dollarization, WP

Publication Details

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37
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Working Paper No. 2008/093
Stock No:

WPIEA2008093
ISBN:

9781451869545
ISSN:

1018-5941

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