Use the same data as put forward in problem 13.3. Problem 13.3 Suppose there are 100 young

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Use the same data as put forward in problem 13.3.

Problem 13.3

Suppose there are 100 young people born each period. Each young person receives 250 goods, but nothing when middle-aged or when old. People can access a storage technology that yields one good next period for every good put in storage in the current period. Alternatively, there is a capital good. For each unit of capital acquired in date t, 1.2 units of the consumption good will be received at date t + 2. If the person liquidates capital after one period, then only 0.75 units of the consumption good can be obtained date t + 1. Assume that ten percent of the people want to consume when middleaged and the remainder want to consume when old. Now, consider a case in which the bank does not expect a bank run to occur, but everyone withdraws when middle aged. Old consumers simply take their withdrawals and acquire the storage good themselves

a. Suppose the bank liquidates all of its assets and equally splits the value of the bank portfolio among the depositors. What would each depositor be able to consume in this case?
b. If the bank anticipated a bank run and held everything in storage, what would each depositor be able to consume?

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A portfolio is a grouping of financial assets such as stocks, bonds, commodities, currencies and cash equivalents, as well as their fund counterparts, including mutual, exchange-traded and closed funds. A portfolio can also consist of non-publicly...
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Modeling Monetary Economies

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Authors: Bruce Champ, Scott Freeman, Joseph Haslag

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