Erschienen in:Banque de France Working Paper ; No. 30
Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (47 p)
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.2139/ssrn.1734759
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Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments September 1994 erstellt
Beschreibung:
The paper presents a model where financial intermediaries invest in a safe and a risky, two-period asset -with aggregate and idiosyncratic shocks on tire risky asset. The realization of returns is privately observed by banks, which offer deposit contracts, with a promised return at t = 1, the level of which depends on the degree of competition in the banking industry. Banks are sensitive .to the propagation of other banks' failures: depositors try to infer the state of the economy.and revise their beliefs after observing too many failures, hence they may watt to rut even on relatively healthy banks (the paper includes a short and a long abstract in French)