Graeve, Ferre; Karas, Alexei - In: Journal of the European Economic Association 12 (2014) 4, pp. 969-996
This paper empirically tests theories of bank runs. We use a structural panel VAR to extract runs from deposit market data. Identification exploits cross-sectional heterogeneity in deposit insurance: we identify bank runs as adverse deposit market supply shocks hitting uninsured banks harder...