This innovative book critically deals with how liberalization and global integration have increased banking fragility in India. Since early nineties, banking and currency crises have rocked the world. These crises involved huge resolution costs and it became priority of governments and policy makers to avert them by adopting pre-emptive measures. One chapter in the book identifies banking crisis episodes in India and designs an early warning system for crisis prediction. Another chapter makes a macro-prudential analysis of the default risk of Indian banks and assesses how external and...