Banking Crises

32 Pages Posted: 16 May 2016

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Richard S. Grossman

Wesleyan University - Economics Department; Institute for Quantitative Social Sciences - Harvard University; Centre for Economic Policy Research

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Date Written: May 2016

Abstract

Financial crises have been a common feature of the economic landscape for more than two centuries. The chapter defines banking crises, considers the type of costs that they impose, and outlines the most common causes of banking crises during the past 200 years. The remainder of the chapter considers five distinct historical periods: the nineteenth century, when the "boom-bust" pattern that would typify later crises became established; the inter-war period, which was punctuated by two major sets of crises (post-World War I crisis and the Great Depression); the post-World War II financial lock-down, which was characterized by a complete absence of banking crises; deregulation and the return of crises in the 1970s; and the subprime crisis that emerged in 2008 and the subsequent euro-zone crisis.

Keywords: Banking, banking crises, banking panics, economic history

JEL Classification: G01, G21, N2

Suggested Citation

Grossman, Richard S., Banking Crises (May 2016). CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP11268, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2780376

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