摘要:This paper provides a quantitative measure for the financial stability of Italy banking sector. First, we construct an
indicator that summarizes the information about the health of Italy's banking system, the Bank Condition Index (BCI).
The index is constructed with capital adequacy, asset quality, earnings and liquidity (CAEL) indicators. The major
advantage of BCI is that can be useful for initial identification of bank soundness and can be helpful to identify the
principal areas of weakness. Furthermore, we apply AR model to evaluate the predictive power of the BCI on GDP
growth. The results identify that the BCI is an important predictor of real economic activity. Finally, we study the
relationship between the BCI and systemic risk measures (DCoVaR, SRISK, DCI), finding that an increase of
systemic risk implies a reduction of bank-financial stability.