We utilize the strategic market game approach to analyze the role and function of a mutual bank with variable fractional reserves, redemption in gold and endogenous interest rate formation. We specify the conditions of enough money and its distribution. Using the continuum of traders model, we show existence and optimality for the case of no bankruptcy as well as for the case in which there exists the potentiality of bankruptcy. Finally, we analyze the relationship of the gearing ratio and the bankruptcy penalty with respect to the resulting equilibrium allocations.
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Length: 24 pages Date of creation: Dec 1990 Date of revision: Publication status: Published in Journal of Economics (1992), 55(2): 123-150 Handle: RePEc:cwl:cwldpp:964
Find related papers by JEL classification: G33 - Financial Economics - - Corporate Finance and Governance - - - Bankruptcy; Liquidation G21 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services - - - Banks; Other Depository Institutions; Mortgages E51 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit - - - Money Supply; Credit; Money Multipliers E43 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Money and Interest Rates - - - Determination of Interest Rates; Term Structure of Interest Rates
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