Commercial bank failures during the Great Recession: The real (estate) story
Adonis Antoniades
Journal of Financial Stability2/3/2025·DOI·Read paper
Abstract
In the run-up to the Great Recession, commercial banks used their balance sheets to fund an expansion in real estate to commercial borrowers. The subsequent bank failures owed more to pre-crisis exposure to commercial real estate credit than to household mortgages or to liquidity risk.
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