01622cas a2200241 a 4500 AALejournalIMF010470 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 15.00 USD 9781451973464 1020-7635 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL International Monetary Fund. Research Dept. IMF Staff papers, Volume 44 No. 3. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 1997. 1 online resource (120 pages) IMF Staff Papers <strong>Off-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required <strong>On-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required Electronic access restricted to authorized BRAC University faculty, staff and students This paper studies the case of Mexico to examine determinants of banking system fragility. The paper tests empirically the proposition that bank fragility is determined by bank-specific factors, macroeconomic conditions, and potential contagion effects. The methodology allows the variables that determine bank failure to differ from those that influence banks' time to failure (or survival rate). Based on the indicators of fragility of individual banks, the paper constructs an index of fragility for the banking system. The framework is applied to the Mexican financial crisis that began in 1994. Mode of access: Internet IMF Staff Papers; IMF Staff Papers ; No. 1997/003 Full text available on IMF http://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/024/1997/003/024.1997.issue-003-en.xml IMF e-Library