How important is it to distinguish relative risk aversion (RRA) from the intertemporal elasticity of substitution (IES) to study banks' provision of liquidity insurance and the effectiveness of deposit freezes against depositors' panic runs? To answer these questions, I develop a Diamond-Dybvig...

How does the availability of alternative investment opportunities for banks' depositors affect the reaction of the banking system to aggregate liquidity shocks? And what are the implications, if any, for banking regulation? To answer these questions, I study a Diamond-Dybvig environment, where...

We study how regulation shapes the interaction between financial fragility and bank liquidity management and propose a rationale for the complementarity between bank recovery and resolution planning. To this end, we analyze an economy in which a benevolent resolution authority sets a bank...