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The (Dis)Advantages of Clearinghouses Before the Fed

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  • Matthew S. Jaremski

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Operating in individual cities, U.S. clearinghouses were the closest thing to a central bank before 1914, but they only assisted banks that chose to join the association. Using an annual bank-level database for seven states between 1880 and 1910, this paper shows that after the entry of a clearinghouse member banks were less likely and non-member banks in the same city were more likely to close. The results are driven by the fact that the presence of clearinghouses led all banks to become more exposed to systemic liquidity risk, yet only provided liquidity to member banks during panics.

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  • Matthew S. Jaremski, 2017. "The (Dis)Advantages of Clearinghouses Before the Fed," NBER Working Papers 23113, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
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    1. Sergio A. Correia & Stephan Luck & Emil Verner, 2024. "Failing Banks," Staff Reports 1117, Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
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    6. Christopher Hoag, 2019. "Bank Executive Experience in a Financial Crisis," Working Papers 1902, Trinity College, Department of Economics.
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    10. Bats, Joost & Greif, William & Kapp, Daniel, 2022. "The rise in the cross-sectoral dispersion of earnings expectations during COVID-19," Working Paper Series 2664, European Central Bank.
    11. Calomiris, Charles W. & Jaremski, Matthew, 2023. "Florida (Un)chained," Journal of Financial Intermediation, Elsevier, vol. 55(C).

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    • G21 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services - - - Banks; Other Depository Institutions; Micro Finance Institutions; Mortgages
    • G32 - Financial Economics - - Corporate Finance and Governance - - - Financing Policy; Financial Risk and Risk Management; Capital and Ownership Structure; Value of Firms; Goodwill
    • N21 - Economic History - - Financial Markets and Institutions - - - U.S.; Canada: Pre-1913

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