Luc Laeven

TL;DR: The authors presented a database of systemic banking crises for the period 1970-2009 and found that direct fiscal costs to support financial sector were smaller this time as a consequence of swift policy action and significant indirect support from expansionary monetary and fiscal policy, the widespread use of guarantees on liabilities, and direct purchases of assets.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors propose a theoretically based and easy-to-implement way to measure the systemic risk of financial institutions using publicly available accounting and stock market data, and apply their model to quarterly data over the period 1974-2013.

TL;DR: In this paper, four main types of commercial credit (asset-based loans, cash-flow loans, trade finance and leasing) are easily identifiable and represent the bulk of corporate credit and aggregate credit supply shocks appear to be driven by individual loan types.

TL;DR: This paper found that loan loss provisions in the euro area are negatively related to GDP growth, i.e., they are procyclical. And they tend to be more procyclically at larger and better capitalized banks, which can explain about two-thirds of the variation in bank capitalization over the business cycle.

TL;DR: The authors provided a comprehensive, global database of deposit insurance arrangements as of 2013 and created a Safety Net Index capturing the generosity of the deposit insurance scheme and government guarantees on banks' balance sheets.