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An Early Warning Model for EU banks with Detection of the Adverse Selection Effect

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Olivier BROSSARD (LEREPS-GRES )
Frédéric DUCROZET (PSE - Crédit Agricole)
Adrian ROCHE (EconomiX - Crédit Agricole)

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We estimate an early warning model of banks’ failure using a panel of 82 EU banks observed between 1991 and 2005. We make two contributions to the literature. Firstly, we construct a distance-to-default indicator and test its predictive power. The tests implemented here are very similar to those realized by Gropp, Vesala and Vulpes (2005), but our time dimension is four years longer and we use a more restrictive definition of banks’ “failure”. This first part of the paper establishes the accuracy of our data and confirms the robustness of distance-to-default as an early indicator of EU banks’ fragility. Our second advance consists in introducing a variable detecting the adverse selection problem that can be caused by rapid growth strategies. A measure of past average growth of assets is shown to be a very significant and powerful predictor of future banks’ difficulties. We discuss the origins and implications of such an effect.

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Paper provided by Groupement de Recherches Economiques et Sociales in its series Working Papers of GRES - Cahiers du GRES with number 2007-08.

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Keywords: failures early warning systems CAMEL ratings distance to default

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G21 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services - - - Banks; Other Depository Institutions; Mortgages
G33 - Financial Economics - - Corporate Finance and Governance - - - Bankruptcy; Liquidation
G14 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Information and Market Efficiency; Event Studies
E58 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit - - - Central Banks and Their Policies

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