The South African small banks’ crisis of 2002/3

Roy Havemann

Economic History of Developing Regions, 2021, vol. 36, issue 2, 313-338

Abstract: Following the collapse of Saambou bank in February 2002, contagion rapidly spread amongst South African small and medium-sized banks. By the end of 2003, half of the country’s banks had deregistered. The paper constructs a unique monthly bank-level data set to show that the banks that failed were those with short-term liabilities from other financial institutions. An initial delay in providing liquidity to solvent banks in distress and raising interest rates may have exacerbated the crisis. The need for prompt, swift action echoes lessons from banking panics throughout history.

Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1080/20780389.2021.1943348

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