Calomiris, Charles W.; Mason, Joseph R. - In: American Economic Review 93 (2003) 5, pp. 1615-1647
We assemble bank-level and other data for Fed member banks to model determinants of bank failure. Fundamentals explain bank failure risk well. The first two Friedman-Schwartz crises are not associated with positive unexplained residual failure risk, or increased importance of bank illiquidity...