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Record Nr.

UNINA9910827478003321

Autore

De Nicolo Gianni

Titolo

Financial Intermediation, Competition, and Risk : : A General Equilibrium Exposition / / Gianni De Nicolo, Marcella Lucchetta

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2009

ISBN

1-4623-6889-1

1-4527-8538-4

1-4518-7252-6

9786612843204

1-282-84320-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (31 p.)

Collana

IMF Working Papers

Altri autori (Persone)

LucchettaMarcella

Disciplina

332.152

Soggetti

Intermediation (Finance)

Competition

Banks and Banking

Econometrics

Finance: General

Labor

Banks

Depository Institutions

Micro Finance Institutions

Mortgages

General Financial Markets: Government Policy and Regulation

Labor Demand

General Financial Markets: General (includes Measurement and Data)

Computable and Other Applied General Equilibrium Models

Banking

Finance

Labour

income economics

Econometrics & economic statistics

Moral hazard

Self-employment

General equilibrium models

Banks and banking

Financial risk management

Self-employed

Econometric models



Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Table of Contents; I. Introduction; II. The Basic Model; A. Time, Endowments and Preferences; B. Technologies; C. Contracts and Information; III. Equilibrium with Banks and Depositors; A. Moral Hazard; B. No Moral Hazard; IV. Optimality and Intermediary Rents; V. Equilibrium with Firms, Intermediaries and Depositors; A. The Extended Model; B. Perfectly Correlated Projects; C. Independent Projects; VI. Conclusion; Appendix; References

Sommario/riassunto

We study a simple general equilibrium model in which investment in a risky technology is subject to moral hazard and banks can extract market power rents. We show that more bank competition results in lower economy-wide risk, lower bank capital ratios, more efficient production plans and Pareto-ranked real allocations. Perfect competition supports a second best allocation and optimal levels of bank risk and capitalization. These results are at variance with those obtained by a large literature that has studied a similar environment in partial equilibrium. Importantly, they are empirically relevant, and demonstrate the need of general equilibrium modeling to design financial policies aimed at attaining socially optimal levels of systemic risk in the economy.