Liquidity, Bank Runs, and Bailouts: Spillover Effects During the Northern Rock Episode
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- 作者：Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham and Tanju Yorulmazer
- 关键词：Contagion ; Banking crisis ; Bank run ; Liquidity ; Event study ; Systemic risk ; Bailout
- 刊名：Journal of Financial Services Research
- 出版年：2010
- 出版时间：June, 2010
- 年：2010
- 卷：37
- 期：2-3
- 页码：83-98
- 全文大小：311.2 KB
文摘
In September 2007, Northern Rock—the fifth largest mortgage lender in the United Kingdom—experienced an old-fashioned bank run, the first bank run in the U.K. since the collapse of City of Glasgow Bank in 1878. The run had been contained by the government’s announcement that it would guarantee all deposits in Northern Rock. This paper analyzes spillover effects during the Northern Rock episode and shows that both the bank run and the subsequent bailout announcement had significant effects on the rest of the U.K. banking system, as measured by abnormal returns on the stock prices of banks. The paper also shows that the effects were a rational response by investors to market news about the liability side of banks’ balance sheets. In particular, banks that rely on funding from wholesale markets were significantly affected, a result consistent with the drying up of liquidity in wholesale markets and the record-high levels of the London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR) during the crisis.