Before turning to the regression analysis, we compare the distributions of pre-crisis structural liquidity and leverage across Failed and Surviving banks, further distinguishing between bank types (Fig. 4). To facilitate the reading, we exclude banks with NSFR above 1.5 and banks with EQUITY above 20 percent. All the distributions have positive skewness and excess kurtosis, with normality tests rejecting the null in all cases. Comparing across subsamples, the most striking result is the evidence of substantially lower EQUITY in the case of Failed Global banks, with the mean close to 4 percent. The distributions of NSFR for Failed banks are also displaced to the left, but the differences tend to be smaller.