Payments Crises and Consequences

Qian Chen (), Christoffer Koch, Gary Richardson and Padma Sharma

No RWP 20-10, Research Working Paper from Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City

Abstract: Banking-system shutdowns during contractions scar economies. Four times in the last forty years, governors suspended payments from state-insured depository institutions. Suspensions of payments in Nebraska (1983), Ohio (1985), and Maryland (1985), which were short and occurred during expansions, had little measurable impact on macroeconomic aggregates. Rhode Island’s payments crisis (1991), which was prolonged and occurred during a recession, lengthened and deepened the downturn. Unemployment increased. Output declined, possibly permanently relative to what might have been. We document these effects using a novel Bayesian method for synthetic control that characterizes the principal types of uncertainty in this form of analysis. Our findings suggest policies that ensure banks continue to process payments during contractions – including the bailouts of financial institutions in 2008 and the unprecedented support of the financial system during the COVID crisis – have substantial value.

Keywords: Payments crisis; Money and banking; Depository institutions; Bank suspension; Synthetic control; Bayesian inference (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E51 E52 E58 G18 G21 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 50
Date: 2020-08-18
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-ban, nep-fdg, nep-his, nep-mac, nep-mon and nep-pay
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DOI: 10.18651/RWP2020-10

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