From the daily archives: Monday, December 7, 2009

Historical Banking Crises and the Rules of the Game

By Rufus Pollock On December 7, 2009 · 2 Comments

Attended an interesting talk today: “Historical Banking Crises and the Rules of the Game” by Professor Charles Calomiris, Columbia Business School. Sporadic notes below. See also this Weaving History thread on Financial Crises.

Notes One crisis with 20 different explanations. Need to sort these out a little. If banks are uninsured then in [...]
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