This paper examines the spillover effects of bankruptcy by important tech industry banks-Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), Silvergate Bank, and Signature Bank-on the top 10 institutions in the MSCI Bank Index and the role that monetary policy by the US Federal Reserve (the Fed) played in this...

The commitment ability of governments is neither infinite nor zero but intermediate. In this paper, we determine the commitment ability that a government needs to implement a unique equilibrium outcome and rule out self-fulfilling expectations. We show that, in a large class of static...