Bank Risk Within and Across Equilibria

July 2, 2014

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Itai Agur. Bank Risk Within and Across Equilibria, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2014) accessed December 26, 2024

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Summary

The global financial crisis highlighted that the financial system can be most vulnerable when it seems most stable. This paper models non-linear dynamics in banking. Small shocks can lead from an equilibrium with few bank defaults straight to a full freeze. The mechanism is based on amplification between adverse selection on banks' funding market and moral hazard in bank monitoring. Our results imply trade-offs between regulators' microprudential desire to shield individual weak banks and the macroprudential consequences of doing so. Moreover, limiting bank reliance on wholesale funding always reduces systemic risk, but limiting the correlation between bank portfolios does not.

Subject: Bank credit, Bank deposits, Banking, Systemic risk

Keywords: Adverse selection, Financial crisis, Interest rate, WP

Publication Details

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37
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Working Paper No. 2014/116
Stock No:

WPIEA2014116
ISBN:

9781498306515
ISSN:

1018-5941

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