The Effect of Banking Crises on Deposit Growth: State-Level Evidence from 1900 to 1930

33 Pages Posted: 5 Sep 2010

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Carlos D. Ramirez

George Mason University - Department of Economics

Date Written: July 1, 2010

Abstract

Using a newly constructed database of bank failures for the period 1900 to 1930, this paper estimates a dynamic regression model to examine the extent to which banking instability at the state level affects the proportion of state deposits relative to national deposits. The main results indicate that banking failures reduce the proportion of state deposits by approximately 0.04 percent in the short run and by nearly 1 percent in the long run. In the eight states that adopted deposit insurance systems during the late 1910s and the 1920s, however, I find no evidence that banking crises affected deposit growth. Furthermore, I find no evidence that the banking crisis of the 1980s and 1990s had any significant effect on state deposit growth. These results suggest that deposit insurance may have lessened the effects of banking instability on deposit growth.

JEL Classification: K42

Suggested Citation

Ramirez, Carlos D., The Effect of Banking Crises on Deposit Growth: State-Level Evidence from 1900 to 1930 (July 1, 2010). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1670883 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1670883

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