Showing 1 - 10 of 791
We use a unique, new, database to examine micro depositor level data for a bank that faced a run. We use minute … of bank-depositor relationships in influencing depositor propensity to run. We employ methods from the epidemiology … underlying factors. We find that deposit insurance is only partially effective in preventing bank runs. Further, our results …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464366
We study a bank run in India in which private bank branches experience sudden and considerable loss of deposits that … on bank-firm relationships and branch balance sheets. The flight to safety is not a flight to quality. Lending shrinks …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013435119
This paper investigates the impact on bank stock prices of emerging market currency crises and bailouts. The stock … events in countries experiencing a crisis. The paper uses the impact of the LTCM crisis on bank stock prices to put the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471245
their investors. We show the bank has to have a fragile capital structure, subject to bank runs, in order to perform these … functions. Far from being an aberration to be regulated away, the funding of illiquid loans by a bank with volatile demand … such as narrow banking and bank capital requirements …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471328
This paper examines the impact of the Asian crisis on bank stocks across four Western countries and six Asian countries …. In the second half of 1997, Western banks experienced positive returns. In contrast East Asian bank indices incurred … market impact only in Indonesia and the Philippines. Except for the Korean program, IMF programs had little effect on bank …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471423
-1994, 2005-2014) and differ in bank regulations, especially concerning capital requirements and enforcement. In contrast to the … forces beyond formal regulations incentivize bank managers to deleverage when their banks are in distress …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479744
During extreme financial crises, all of a sudden, the financial world that was once rife with profit opportunities for financial institutions (banks, for short) becomes exceedingly complex. Confusion and uncertainty follow, ravaging financial markets and triggering massive flight-to-quality...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463652
Reserve Board of Governors demonstrate that deposit insurance influenced the composition of bank suspensions in these states … each system, the bank failure rate rose to an unsustainable height and the system ceased operations …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466067
Motivated by public policy debates about bank consolidation and conflicting theoretical predictions about the … relationship between the market structure of the banking industry and bank fragility, this paper studies the impact of bank … concentration, bank regulations, and national institutions on the likelihood of suffering a systemic banking crisis. Using data on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012468775
Argentina's economic crisis has strong similarities with previous crises stretching back to the nineteenth century. A common thread runs through all these crises: the interaction of a weak, undisciplined, or corruptible banking sector, and some other group of conspirators from the public or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012469246