Failing and Merging as Competing Alternatives during Times of Financial Distress: Evidence from the Colombian Financial Crisis

Número: 
588
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Clasificación JEL: 
G21, G33, C25
Palabras clave: 
survival analysis, competing risk models, Colombia

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This paper studies the determinants of individual bank failures and MyA processes in Colombia during the financial crisis of the late 1990s. Using bank-specific data we estimate competing risk hazards models and find that while profitability and capitaliz