“…EWSs sometimes extend set of explanatory variables towards individual bank performance data, specifically some proxies for credit risk (contamination of asset portfolio), interest rate risk, or exchange rate risk exposure. These data proved its importance in single country studies (Khallouli & Nabi, 2013), as well as in models that predict individual bank failures (Demyanyk & Hasan, 2010; Kimmel, Thornton, & Bennett, 2016; Oet, Bianco, Gramlich, & Ong, 2013; Tanaka, Kinkyo, & Hamori, 2016). Unfortunately, our choice of methodology leaves no space for any of those extensions.…”