02203cas a2200253 a 4500 AALejournalIMF011648 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 5.00 USD 9781463933142 1018-5941 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL Federico, Pablo. Bank Funding Structures and Risk : Evidence From the Global Financial Crisis / Pablo Federico, Francisco Vazquez. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2012. 1 online resource (33 pages) IMF Working 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 analyzes the evolution of bank funding structures in the run up to the global financial crisis and studies the implications for financial stability, exploiting a bank-level dataset that covers about 11,000 banks in the U.S. and Europe during 2001?09. The results show that banks with weaker structural liquidity and higher leverage in the pre-crisis period were more likely to fail afterward. The likelihood of bank failure also increases with bank risk-taking. In the cross-section, the smaller domestically-oriented banks were relatively more vulnerable to liquidity risk, while the large cross-border banks were more susceptible to solvency risk due to excessive leverage. The results support the proposed Basel III regulations on structural liquidity and leverage, but suggest that emphasis should be placed on the latter, particularly for the systemically-important institutions. Macroeconomic and monetary conditions are also shown to be related with the likelihood of bank failure, providing a case for the introduction of a macro-prudential approach to banking regulation. Mode of access: Internet Vazquez, Francisco. IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2012/029 Full text available on IMF http://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/001/2012/029/001.2012.issue-029-en.xml IMF e-Library