The effects of crisis management measures on the economy: Evidence from past crises

This paper deals with the effectiveness of crisis management measures used by national authorities to tackle a systemic banking crisis. Quarterly panel dataset of 69 countries over the time span 1970 to 2023 was created and a total of 54 crisis periods were examined based on the identification of various sources. The estimation employs two-way fixed effects model in difference-in-differences design to examine the effect of individual policies on the economy as represented by real GDP, house prices and credit. We find a significant effect of bank nationalizations and deposit freezes on the increases of real GDP growth and nominal house prices growth. On the contrary, we were not able to draw any conclusions from the analysis of the remaining measures such as liquidity support, bank recapitalizations or asset purchases.