Extracting Leading Indicators of Bank Fragility from Market Prices – Estonia Focus

Yu-Fu Chen, Michael Funke and Kadri Männasoo

No 1647, CESifo Working Paper Series from CESifo

Abstract: Banking reform has proved to be one of the most problematic elements of economic transition in central and Eastern Europe. Therefore the paper considers the development of the Estonian banking sector and derives individual banks´ fragility scores during transition. To this end we use option-based tools and equity prices to estimate distance-to-default measures of banks´ distress probabilities. Overall, the results suggest that market indicators are moderately useful for anticipating future financial distress and rating changes in transition economies. The implication for an effective supervisory framework is to use a plurality of risk scores when assessing bank vulnerability.

Keywords: banking; financial stability; bank fragility; options; Estonia (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E44 E58 G21 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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