Deposit Competition and Financial Fragility: Evidence from the US Banking Sector
Author(s) -
Mark Egan,
Alı Hortaçsu,
Gregor Matvos
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
american economic review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 16.936
H-Index - 297
eISSN - 1944-7981
pISSN - 0002-8282
DOI - 10.1257/aer.20150342
Subject(s) - deposit insurance , economics , financial fragility , competition (biology) , fragility , bank run , monetary economics , capital (architecture) , capital requirement , financial distress , empirical evidence , bank failure , financial system , financial crisis , finance , macroeconomics , microeconomics , market liquidity , history , ecology , philosophy , chemistry , archaeology , epistemology , incentive , biology
PRELIMINARY AND INCOMPLETE, PLEASE DO NOT CITE WITHOUT PERMISSION. We develop and estimate an empirical model of the U.S. banking sector using a new data set covering the largest U.S. banks over the period 2002-2013. Our model incorporates insured depositors and run-prone uninsured depositors who have rich preferences over dierentiated banks. Banks compete for deposits in the spirit of Matutes and Vives (1996) and can endogenously default. We estimate demand for uninsured
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