Nous introduisons la garantie des dépôts dans une version modifiée du modèle de Diamond (1984). Nous faisons les deux hypothèses suivantes. Premièrement, il y a des limites à la diversification du portefeuille de prêts. Deuxièmement, la distribution de probabilités des revenus du...

We construct a model in which a banking panic is triggered by the banker, not the depositors. When a banker receives a pessimistic information on the return of the bank s assets, he liquidates them prematurely in order to protect his capital. In the face of this liquidation, all depositors...

[eng] The Recent Developments of the History of Banking Crises in the United States This paper surveys the recent literature on banking crises in the United States between 1838 and 1933. A more microeconomic analysis provided these main results : — contagious bank runs took place during the «...

[eng] The microeconomic foundations of the concept of bank run : a survey . . This article is intended to introduce some recent developments on the analysis of bank panics. It shows that banks and depositors face a problem of coordination of their behavior which can be due to informational...

This paper constructs a general equilibrium model of the interaction between financial intermediaries and financial markets that sheds some light on the short-term volatility of real interest rates. The main findings of the paper are as follows. When financial intermediaries issue contingent...