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American Economic Review: Vol. 90 No. 5 (December 2000)
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Market Contagion: Evidence from the Panics of 1854 and 1857
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Kelly, Morgan, and
Cormac O Grada. 2000. "Market Contagion: Evidence from the Panics of 1854 and 1857."
American Economic Review,
90(5): 1110-1124.
DOI: 10.1257/aer.90.5.1110
DOI: 10.1257/aer.90.5.1110
Abstract
To test a model of contagion--where individuals hear some bad news and communicate it to their acquaintances, who then pass it on, leading to a market panic--requires a knowledge of the information networks of participants, something hitherto unavailable. For two panics in the 1850s this paper examines the behavior of Irish depositors in a New York bank. As recent immigrants, their social network was determined largely by their place of origin in Ireland, and where they lived in New York. During both panics this social network turns out to be the prime determinant of behavior.
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Kelly, Morgan (U Warwick)
O Grada, Cormac (U College Dublin)
O Grada, Cormac (U College Dublin)
JEL Classifications
G21: Banks; Other Depository Institutions; Micro Finance Institutions; Mortgages
N21: Economic History: Financial Markets and Institutions: U.S.; Canada: Pre-1913
N21: Economic History: Financial Markets and Institutions: U.S.; Canada: Pre-1913
