Description
This paper aims to investigate whether stock markets can reduce the output costs of
banking crises. The work is motivated by Alan Greenspan’s claim that capital markets serve as a
financial “spare tire” in the event of a banking crisis.
Journal of Financial Economic Policy
Stock...
Description
While the literature studying the effect of banking crises on real output growth rates has
found short-lived effects, recent work has focused on the level effects showing that banking crises can
reduce output below its trend for several years. This paper aims to investigate the...