Consider a housing crash, so that house prices fall sharply and the $40 billion of mortgages the

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Consider a housing crash, so that house prices fall sharply and the $40 billion of mortgages the bank holds are now suddenly worth only $35 billion. Will this cause a bank run and a bank failure? Again, distinguish the case with and without deposit insurance. If the bank does not fail, who bears the $5 billion loss?

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3E Economics

ISBN: 9781292411019

3rd Global Edition

Authors: Daron Acemoglu, David Laibson , John List

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