Date: 2015
Type: Working Paper
Government guarantees and financial stability
Working Paper, CEPR Discussion Paper, 2015/10560
ALLEN, Franklin, CARLETTI, Elena, GOLDSTEIN, Itay, LEONELLO, Agnese, Government guarantees and financial stability, CEPR Discussion Paper, 2015/10560 - https://hdl.handle.net/1814/38285
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Government guarantees to financial institutions are intended to reduce the likelihood of runs and bank failures, but are also usually associated with distortions in banks’ risk taking decisions. We build a model to analyze these trade-offs based on the global-games literature and its application to bank runs. We derive several results, some of which against common wisdom. First, guarantees reduce the probability of a run, taking as given the amount of bank risk taking, but lead banks to take more risk, which in turn might lead to an increase in the probability of a run. Second, guarantees against fundamental-based failures and panic-based runs may lead to more efficiency than guarantees against panic-based runs alone. Finally, there are cases where following the introduction of guarantees banks take less risk than would be optimal.
Cadmus permanent link: https://hdl.handle.net/1814/38285
ISSN: 0265-8003
Series/Number: CEPR Discussion Paper; 2015/10560
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