Bank Panics, Government Guarantees, and the Long-Run Size of the Financial Sector: Evidence from Free-Banking America

Journal of Money, Credit and Banking

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 961-997

  Chabot, Benjamin ^a   Moul, Charles C ^b  

^a FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Banking panics; Economic history; Endogenous market structure; Government guarantees; Leverage cycles

Indexed keywords

EID: 84904767203     PISSN: 00222879     EISSN: 15384616     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jmcb.12131     Document Type: Article

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