Cipriani, Marco; Martin, Antoine; McCabe, Patrick E.; … - Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the … - 2014
We build a model of a financial intermediary, in the tradition of Diamond and Dybvig (1983), and show that allowing the intermediary to impose redemption fees or gates in a crisis--a form of suspension of convertibility--can lead to preemptive runs. In our model, a fraction of investors...