We study how response time in a laboratory experiment on bank runs affects withdrawal decisions. In our setup, the bank … difficulty and optimality of withdrawal decision. We hypothesize that a) the more difficult the decision, the longer the response …

We report experimental evidence on gender differences in financial decision that involves three depositors choosing …

We report experimental evidence on the effect of observability of actions on bank runs. We model depositors' decision …

keep the money deposited: it is more likely that withdrawals are observed. We study how decision-making changes if … depositors are able to make their decision to keep their funds in the bank visible to subsequent depositors at a cost. We show … the no-run outcome the unique equilibrium. We test if the theoretical predicitions hold in a lab experiment. We find that …

We design a laboratory experiment to test the importance of wealth as a channel for financial contagion across markets … fundamentals, we show that a coordination failure in the first market reduces investors' wealth, which makes them more likely to …