Predicting failure in the commercial banking industry

John Tatom

MPRA Paper from University Library of Munich, Germany

Abstract: The ability to predict bank failure has become much more important since the mortgage foreclosure crisis began in 2007. The model proposed in this study uses proxies for the regulatory standards embodied in the so-called CAMELS rating system, as well as several local or national economic variables to produce a model that is robust enough to forecast bank failure for the entire commercial bank industry in the United States. This model is able to predict failure (survival) accurately for commercial banks during both the Savings and Loan crisis and the mortgage foreclosure crisis. Other important results include the insignificance of several factors proposed in the literature, including total assets, real price of energy, currency ratio and the interest rate spread.

Keywords: bank failure; banking crises; CAMELS ratings (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G01 G18 G21 G33 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011-08-05
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