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Deposit and Credit Reallocation in a Banking Panic: The Role of State- Owned Banks

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  • Viral V. Acharya

    (New York University, Stern School of Business.)

  • Abhiman Das

    (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, India.)

  • Nirupama Kulkarni

    (CAFRAL, Reserve Bank of India, Mumbai, India.)

  • Prachi Mishra

    (Department of Economics and Isaac Center for Public Policy, Ashoka University)

  • Nagpurnanand Prabhala

    (The Johns Hopkins University Carey Business School, Washington, DC.)

Abstract

We study a bank run in India in which private bank branches experience sudden and considerable loss of deposits, which migrate to state-owned public sector banks (PSBs) that serve as safe havens. We trace the consequences of the deposit reallocation using bank branch-level balance sheet and firm-bank lending data. The flight to safety is not a flight to quality. Lending shrinks and credit quality improves in run banks, but worsens in PSBs receiving the flight-to-safety flows. The reallocation of resources is not efficient in the aggregate.

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  • Viral V. Acharya & Abhiman Das & Nirupama Kulkarni & Prachi Mishra & Nagpurnanand Prabhala, 2025. "Deposit and Credit Reallocation in a Banking Panic: The Role of State- Owned Banks," Working Papers 140, Ashoka University, Department of Economics.
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    JEL classification:

    • F34 - International Economics - - International Finance - - - International Lending and Debt Problems
    • G23 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services - - - Non-bank Financial Institutions; Financial Instruments; Institutional Investors
    • G28 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services - - - Government Policy and Regulation
    • G33 - Financial Economics - - Corporate Finance and Governance - - - Bankruptcy; Liquidation
    • K42 - Law and Economics - - Legal Procedure, the Legal System, and Illegal Behavior - - - Illegal Behavior and the Enforcement of Law
    • O53 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economywide Country Studies - - - Asia including Middle East

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