The Cost of Banking Crises: New Evidence from Life Satisfaction Data

Alberto Montagnoli () and Mirko Moro

Kyklos, 2018, vol. 71, issue 2, 279-309

Abstract: It is known that banking crises produce large economic costs. Yet might their consequences be even more far†reaching? We investigate an issue as yet largely unexplored and provide some of the first evidence that banking crises also lead to major, widespread, and lasting psychological losses. We estimate the costs of banking crises with individual life satisfaction; we show that these extend beyond GDP declines and other macroeconomic and financial leakages. For the 2007†8 financial crisis, we find some evidence that the losses are larger for those countries that had previously experienced a credit boom.

Date: 2018
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