Cipriani, Marco; Martin, Antoine; Parigi, Bruno - 2013
In recent years, U.S. banks have increasingly relied on deposits from financial intermediaries, especially money market … funds (MMFs), which collect funds from large institutional investors and lend them to banks. In this paper, we show that … intermediation through MMFs allows investors to limit their exposure to a given bank (i.e., reap gains from diversifi cation …