Loading…

Reserve requirements, the maturity structure of debt, and bank runs /

The paper looks at the relationship between reserve requirements and the choice of the maturity structure of external debt in a general equilibrium setup, by incorporating the role of international lenders. A date- and maturity-specific reserve requirement is a fraction of the debt to be deposited i...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Al-Zein, Eza Ghassan, 1978- (Author)
Corporate Author: International Monetary Fund
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2008.
©2008
Series:IMF working paper ; WP/08/108.
Subjects:
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • I. Introduction; II. Motivation and Literature; III. The Model; A. The Domestic Economy; B. Date-Specific and Maturity-Specific Reserve Requirements; C. The Lenders' Problem; D. Defining the Equilibrium; Figures; 1. Structure of the Model; IV. The Emergence of Bank Runs; A. The Emergence of Bank Runs in the Setup Without Reserve Requirements; Defining the Illiquidity Condition; 2. Decision Tree at t=1 Summarizes How a Bank Run Would Occur.; B. Can Reserve Requirements Prevent the Occurrence of a Bank Run?; Illiquidity Conditions with Reserve Requirements
  • Reserve Requirements and Market FailureC. International Lending After the Bank Runs: Are International Lenders "Throwing Good Money After Bad Money"?; International Re-Optimization Problem; V. Discussion; Sunspot and Bank Run Probability; Incentive to Form a Bank; VI. Conclusion; Appendix; References