Capital and liquidity ratios and financial distress. Evidence from the European banking industry

L Chiaramonte, B Casu - The British Accounting Review, 2017 - Elsevier
Using a large bank-level dataset, we test the relevance of both structural liquidity and capital
ratios, as defined in Basel III, on banks' probability of failure. To include all relevant episodes …

Predicting distress in European banks

F Betz, S Oprică, TA Peltonen, P Sarlin - Journal of Banking & Finance, 2014 - Elsevier
The paper develops an early-warning model for predicting vulnerabilities leading to distress
in European banks using both bank and country-level data. As outright bank failures have …

How to evaluate an early-warning system: Toward a unified statistical framework for assessing financial crises forecasting methods

B Candelon, EI Dumitrescu, C Hurlin - IMF Economic Review, 2012 - Springer
This paper proposes an original and unified toolbox to evaluate financial crisis early-
warning systems (EWS). It presents four main advantages. First, it is a model free method …

On policymakers' loss functions and the evaluation of early warning systems

P Sarlin - Economics Letters, 2013 - Elsevier
This paper introduces a new loss function and Usefulness measure for evaluating early
warning systems (EWSs) that incorporate policymakers' preferences between issuing false …

Currency crisis early warning systems: Why they should be dynamic

B Candelon, EI Dumitrescu, C Hurlin - International Journal of Forecasting, 2014 - Elsevier
Abstract Traditionally, financial crisis Early Warning Systems (EWSs) have relied on
macroeconomic leading indicators when forecasting the occurrence of such events. This …

Predicting sovereign debt crises: An early warning system approach

M Dawood, N Horsewood, F Strobel - Journal of Financial Stability, 2017 - Elsevier
In light of the renewed challenge to construct effective “Early Warning Systems” for
sovereign debt crises, we empirically evaluate the predictive power of econometric models …

Fitting and forecasting sovereign defaults using multiple risk signals

R Savona, M Vezzoli - Oxford Bulletin of Economics and …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
In this article, we try to realize the best compromise between in‐sample goodness of fit and
out‐of‐sample predictability of sovereign defaults. To do this, we use a new regression‐tree …

A cautious note on the use of panel models to predict financial crises

J Van den Berg, B Candelon, JP Urbain - Economics Letters, 2008 - Elsevier
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Interconnectedness of the banking sector as a vulnerability to crises

TA Peltonen, M Rancan, P Sarlin - International Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
This paper uses macro‐network to measure the interconnectedness of the banking sector
and relates it to banking crises in Europe. Beyond cross‐border financial linkages of the …

Evaluating financial performance of insurance companies using rating transition matrices

A Sharma, DM Jadi, D Ward - The Journal of Economic Asymmetries, 2018 - Elsevier
Financial performance of insurance companies is captured by changes in rating grades. An
insurer is susceptible to a rating transition which is a signal depicting current financial …