Externalities and financial crisis - enough to cause collapse?

Marcus Miller and Lei Zhang

No 13834, CEPR Discussion Papers from C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers

Abstract: After the boom in US subprime lending came the bust - with a run on US shadow banks. The magnitude of boom and bust were, it seems, amplified by two significant externalities triggered by aggregate shocks: the endogeneity of bank equity due to mark-to-market accounting and of bank liquidity due to ‘fire-sales’ of securitised assets. We show how adding a systemic ‘bank run’ to the canonical model of Adrian and Shin allows for a tractable analytical treatment - including the counterfactual of complete collapse that forces the Treasury and the Fed to intervene.

Keywords: Cross-border banking; Pecuniary externalities; Bank runs; Illiquidity; Lender of last resort (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G01 G11 G24 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019-07
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