Number of countries having a banking crisis in each year since 1800. This is based onThis Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly, which covers only 70 countries. The general upward trend might be attributed to many factors. One of these is a gradual historical increase in the percent of people who receive money for their labor. Another, elsewhere suggested reason related to more recent development trends and to banking crisis during modern era might be changes in the size of banking sector compared to overall GDP. The dramatic feature of this graph is the virtual absence of banking crises during the period of theBretton Woods agreement, 1945 to 1971. This analysis is similar to Figure 10.1 in Reinhart and Rogoff (2009). For more details see the help file for "bankingCrises" in the Ecdat package available from theComprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN).
This is alist of banking crises. A banking crisis is afinancial crisis that affects banking activity. Banking crises includebank runs, which affect single banks; banking panics, which affect many banks; and systemic banking crises, in which a country experiences many defaults and financial institutions and corporations face great difficulties repaying contracts.[1] A banking crisis is marked by bank runs that lead to the demise of financial institutions, or by the demise of a financial institution that starts a string of similar demises.[2]
Abank run occurs when many bank customers withdraw theirdeposits because they believe the bank might fail. There have been many runs on individual banks throughout history; for example, some of the2008–2009 bank failures in the United States were associated with bank runs.
Dutch banking crisis of 1672,Rampjaar financial turmoil. Middelburg bank suspended payments amid wartime runs. TheBank of Amsterdam faced a bank run but remained solvent.[3]
^Van Nieuwkerk, Marius; Kroeze, Cherelt (2009).The Bank of Amsterdam: on the origins of central banking. Nederlandsche bank. Arnhem: Sonsbeek. p. 135.ISBN978-90-78217-13-8.