We study a monetary, general equilibrium economy in which banks exist because they provide intertemporal insurance to risk-averse depositors. A ""banking crisis"" is defined as a case in which banks exhaust their reserve assets. Under different model specifications, the banking industry is...

We formulate a simple theoretical model of a banking industry that we use to identify and construct theory-based measures of systemic bank shocks (SBS). These measures differ from 'banking crisis' (BC) indicators employed in many empirical studies, which are constructed using primarily...

We formulate a simple theoretical model of a banking industry that we use to identify and construct theory-based measures of systemic bank shocks (SBS). These measures differ from "banking crisis" (BC) indicators employed in many empirical studies, which are constructed using primarily...