Using a new biography of banks, we examine the stability of Irish banking from 1797 to 1826 by constructing a failure rate series. We find that the ultimate cause of the frequent and severe banking crises was the crisis-prone structure of the banking system, which was designed to benefit the...

We show that the impact of government bailouts (liquidity injections) on a representative bank's risk taking depends on the level of systematic risk of its loans portfolio. In a model where bank's output follows a geometric Brownian motion and the government guarantees bank's liabilities, we...

Using a new biography of banks, we examine the stability of Irish banking from 1797 to 1826 by constructing a failure rate series. We find that the ultimate cause of the frequent and severe banking crises was the crisis-prone structure of the banking system, which was designed to benefit the...

Im Juli 2016 hat der Autor erstmals eine Übersicht und Analyse der Aufwendungen vorgestellt, die bis dahin für die Länder Hamburg und Schleswig-Holstein aus den seit 2009 ergriffenen Stützungsmaßnahmen zugunsten der HSH Nordbank entstanden sind. Diese Analyse wird hier auf Basis der...

This paper investigates the macroeconomic effects of UK banking crises over the period 1750 to 1938. We construct a new annual banking crisis series using bank failure rate data, which suggests that the incidence of banking crises was every 32 years. Using our new series and a narrative approach...

Der am 9. Juni 2016 veröffentlichte Geschäftsbericht der HSH Nordbank für 2015 und die Übertragung von notleidenden Krediten im Volumen von 5.000 Mio. € zum 30.6.2016 geben wieder einmal Anlass, über die Kosten nachzudenken, die von den Ländern Hamburg und Schleswig-Holstein, und damit...