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Banking Crises, Liquidity, and Credit Lines : a Macroeconomic Perspective.

The banking crises in 2007-10 are not exceptional. There have been many such crises in the past in both developed countries and emerging economies. A banking crisis can be related to solvency or liquidity (or both). This book focuses on banking crisis and liquidity. This book starts from basics and...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Singh, Gurbachan
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2012.
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  • Cover; Banking Crises, Liquidity, and Credit Lines; Copyright; Contents; List of illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 1.1 A perspective on banking crises, liquidity, and credit lines; 1.2 A glimpse of the main contents; 1.3 Plan of the book; 2. Bank solvency and systemic stability; 2.1 Diversifiable risks; 2.2 Non-diversifiable risks and capital; 2.3 Non-diversifiable risks and liquidity; 3. The rationale for demand deposits (and short-term funds); 3.1 Demand deposits as money; 3.2 Demand deposits for consumption smoothing; 3.3 Demand deposits as a check on moral hazard.
  • 4. Literature review, and the road ahead4.1 Banking crises and liquidity; 4.2 Credit lines; 4.3 The road ahead; Appendix: storage technology; 5. Near-systemic bank runs, given a flexible more-reputed bank; 5.1 Reserves; 5.2 Liquid loans: purchase of loans by the more-reputed bank; 5.3 Illiquid loans: near lender of last resort; 5.4 Illiquid loans: line of credit from the more-reputed bank; 5.5 A model of a possible market for lines of credit; 5.6 Price-level stability and near-systemic bank runs; 5.7 A two-way credit line and a mediator; 5.8 Competition and stability.
  • 6. Systemic bank runs, given a flexible central bank6.1 Reserves; 6.2 Liquid loans: purchase of loans by the central bank; 6.3 Illiquid loans: lender of last resort; 6.4 Illiquid loans: lines of credit from the central bank; 6.5 A model of possible quasi-market for lines of credit; 6.6 Price-level stability and systemic bank runs; 6.7 Systemic runs and near-systemic runs: a comparison; 6.8 Hypothetical and actual central banks, past and present; 7. Systemic bank runs under the gold standard; 7.1 Gold reserves; 7.2 Liquid loans: purchase of loans by the 'gold company'
  • 7.3 Illiquid loans: hypothetical lender of last resort7.4 Illiquid loans: a line of credit from the 'gold company'; 7.5 A credit line model and a plausible market failure; 7.6 Market price of gold, and systemic bank runs; 7.7 'Gold company' and central bank: a comparison; 8. Implications of inelastic supply of desired assets; 8.1 Inelastic issue of deposits by the rigid more-reputed bank; 8.2 Inelastic issue of currency by the rigid central bank; 8.3 Inelastic supply of gold under the gold standard; 8.4 Inelastic supply of desired assets, and the real sector.
  • 9. Bank runs, portfolio choice, and adjustment mechanism9.1 Banking crisis vis-à-vis stock market crash; 9.2 Flex-price assets and fix-price assets; 9.3 Price elasticity of supply, and non-price elasticity of supply; 9.4 Redemption and exchange: a distinction I; 9.5 Price adjustment and quantity adjustment; 9.6 Deposit insurance for reasons of liquidity; 10. Bank runs, liquidity, and consumption smoothing; 10.1 Redemption and exchange: a distinction II; 10.2 Real and non-real liquidity shock; 10.3 Consumption smoothing in a broad perspective.