Bank runs, portfolio choice, and liquidity provision / by Toni Ahnert and Mahmoud Elamin.: FB3-5/2019-37E-PDF

"We examine the portfolio choice of banks in a micro-funded model of runs. To insure risk averse investors against liquidity risk, competitive banks offer demand deposits. We use global games to link the probability of a bank run to the portfolio choice. Based upon interim information about risky investment, banks liquidate investments to hold a safe asset. This partial hedge against investment risk reduces the withdrawal incentives of investors for a given deposit rate. As a result of the portfolio choice, (i) banks provide more liquidity ex ante (so banks offer a higher deposit rate), and (ii) the welfare of investors increases"--Abstract.

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Department/Agency Bank of Canada.
Title Bank runs, portfolio choice, and liquidity provision / by Toni Ahnert and Mahmoud Elamin.
Series title Bank of Canada staff working paper, 1701-9397 ; 2019-37
Publication type Series - View Master Record
Language [English]
Format Electronic
Electronic document
Note(s) "September 2019."
Includes bibliographical references (pages 27-28).
Publishing information Ottawa : Bank of Canada, 2019.
©2019
Author / Contributor Ahnert, Toni, author.
Elamin, Mahmoud, author.
Description 1 online resource (ii, 47 pages) : figures.
Catalogue number
  • FB3-5/2019-37E-PDF
Subject terms Financial institutions
Investments
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