Ahnert, Toni; Bertsch, Christoph; Leonello, Agnese; … - 2025
active role in managing these risks? We study contingent risk management (hedging) in a standard global-games model of a bank … run. Banks fail to hedge precisely when the exposure to a shock is most severe, just when risk management would have the … biggest impact. Higher bank capital and broader deposit-insurance coverage crowd out hedging by banks that already manage risk …