Using AI to Let History Speak About Bank Runs

Sergio Correia, Stephan Luck and Emil Verner

No 20260707a, Liberty Street Economics from Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Abstract: Banking crises are commonly associated with bank runs and banking panics, yet our empirical understanding of bank runs is constrained by a lack of bank-level data. In a new paper, we use large language models (LLMs) to extract information on bank runs from millions of digitized historical newspaper pages, creating the most comprehensive database of bank runs in U.S. history. Every bank run episode that we identify is documented on a companion website where users can browse and examine individual episodes, and read the original newspaper articles. In this post, we describe how we built this dataset and discuss what its basic features reveal.

Keywords: bank runs; banking crises; bank failures; deposit insurance; liquidity; solvency; artificial intelligence (AI) (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G01 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2026-07-07
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DOI: 10.59576/lse.20260707a

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