Scandinavian Working Papers in Economics
Working Papers,
Lund University, Department of Economics
No 2003:2: The Market’s View on the Probability of Banking Sector Failure: Cross-Country Comparisons
Hans Byström ()
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Hans Byström: Department of Economics, Lund University, Postal: Department of Economics, School of Economics and Management, Lund University, Box 7082, S-220 07 Lund, Sweden, and, School of Finance and Economics, University of Technology, Sydney, P.O.Box 123, Broadway, NSW 2007, Australia
Abstract: Considering the increasingly international banks of today, the health ofa country’s banking sector is crucial not only to the country’s growthand prosperity but also to the rest of the international financialcommunity. Early warning signals of a banking sector in trouble or apending banking crisis would therefore be of great value to both banks,investors and banking regulators/supervisors world wide. Di.erentwarning signals exist and in this paper we investigate how the stockmarket can provide a market-based indicator of banking sector health.Hall and Miles (1990) suggests an approach of estimating defaultprobabilities of individual banks using only their stock marketvaluations and volatilities. In this paper we apply an aggregatedversion of their approach to banking sectors around the world in bothdeveloped and emerging economies and study the market’s assessment ofthe probability of systemic banking crises in these countries over thelast decade, including the Asian Crisis 1997-98. In addition, weinvestigate whether there is a relationship between the probability ofbanking sector failure and institutional/structural features of theactual banking sector. The quality of governance and the degree of lawand order in a country is found to be significantly negatively relatedto the market based failure probabilities as is an explicit depositinsurance during periods of crisis. Keywords: banking sector; bankingcrisis; default probability; market discipline
Keywords: banking sector; banking crisis; default probability; market discipline
27 pages, March 11, 2003
- Published as
- Hans Byström, (2004), 'The Market’s View on the Probability of Banking Sector Failure: Cross-Country Comparisons', Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money, vol 14, no 5, pages 419-438
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