Economic fundamentals and bank runs

Financial crises ; Economic conditions ; Banks and banking

The problem of small change in early Argentina

Coinage ; Money supply

On the size distribution of banks

Bank size ; Banks and banking, American

Search, money, and inflation under private information

I study a version of the Lagos-Wright (2003) model of monetary exchange in which buyers have private information about their tastes and sellers make take-it-or-leave-it-offers (i.e., have the power to set prices and quantities). The introduction of imperfect information makes the existence of monetary equilibrium a more robust feature of the environment. In general, the model has a monetary steady state in which only a proportion of the agents hold money. Agents who do not hold money cannot participate in trade in the decentralized market. The proportion of agents holding money is endogenous and depends (negatively) on the level of expected inflation. As in Lagos and Wright's model, in equilibrium there is a positive welfare cost of expected inflation, but the origins of this cost are very different.Money - Mathematical models

Bank risk of failure and the too-big-to-fail policy

Banks and banking

Loanable Funds, Monitoring and Banking

This paper studies financial intermediation in a general equilibrium overlapping generations model. Indivisible investment projects combine with informational imperfections to create a (hidden action) moral hazard problem and introduce a role for third-party monitoring. Agency costs at the intermediary level are also considered. Under some conditions, monitors can be viewed as banks facing a non-trivial portfolio diversification problem. Equilibria are derived in which a large national bank coexists with a number of regional banks, a structure of strong empirical relevance. Policies such as a mandatory reserve requirement are shown to have substantial effects on the levels of investment in the economy.

Interest on reserves and daylight credit

Banks and banking ; Interest