Are Banks Really Special? New Evidence from the FDIC-Induced Failure of Healthy Banks

Adam Ashcraft ()

American Economic Review, 2005, vol. 95, issue 5, 1712-1730

Abstract: Recent bank failures are followed by significant and permanent negative declines in real county income. These declines are larger for small failures than for large failures per dollar of assets, are larger for bank failures than thrift failures, and are larger for bank closures than assisted mergers. More interestingly, the failure of even healthy banks has significant and permanent negative effects on economic activity.

Date: 2005
Note: DOI: 10.1257/000282805775014326
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