Apanard P. Angkinand

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed the relationship between explicit deposit insurance coverage and banks' risk-taking and found that the coverage that maximizes market discipline depends on country-specific characteristics of bank governance.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed the relationship between banking regulation and supervision, and the severity of banking crises measured in terms of the magnitude of output loss, and found that countries that provide comprehensive deposit insurance coverage and enforce strict bank capital adequacy requirements experience a smaller output cost of crises.

TL;DR: The authors decompose liberalization into behavioral liberalization, competitive liberalization (equity market, capital account, and banks' entry and activity liberalization), and privatization, and show that the likelihood of banking crises is relatively high at an intermediate level of liberalization in emerging markets.

TL;DR: The authors investigated the effects of alternative exchange rate regimes on the probability of banking crises using a new set of classifications from the IMF that allows us to distinguish between hard and soft pegs.

TL;DR: The authors examined the degree of interdependence between national stock market returns for 17 advanced economies and the United States for various sub-periods from January 1973 to February 2009, and found that there was an increasing degree of intra-and inter-country interdependency and spillover effects from a shock to U.S. stock market.