From Sergio Correia, Stephan Luck, and Emil Verner: Why do banks fail? We create a panel covering most commercial banks from 1865 through 2023 to study the history of failing banks in the United States. Failing banks are characterized by rising asset losses, deteriorating solvency, and an increasing reliance on expensive non-core funding. Commonalities across…
Failing Banks
Failing Banks
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2022 prize lectures in economic sciences
16 Dec 2022 Leave a comment
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Debate: Abolish Banking Insurance?
18 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
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.@cwcalomiris “Thinking Historically about Banking Crises and Bailouts”
20 Jan 2020 Leave a comment
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John H. Cochrane: Towards a run-free financial system | SKAGEN New Year Conference
13 Jan 2020 Leave a comment
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Tirole on the economics of crises
05 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
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35 years later: Diamond-Dybvig model of bank runs
16 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
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Richard Posner: Fiscal Irresponsibility Clouds the Future
23 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
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Richard Allen Posner on crisis in capitalism
08 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
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