Carlson, Mark; Wheelock, David C. - 2016 - Draft: July 18, 2016
during the 19th century to facilitate interregional payments and flows of liquidity and credit. Vast sums moved through the … the system's resilience to solvency and liquidity shocks and whether these shocks might have been contagious. We find that … the interbank system became more resilient to solvency shocks but less resilient to liquidity shocks as banks sharply …