“Anticipated” events of this type depend partly on a price notated as Q*t (“Q-star sub-t”) in a 2015 infinite-horizon model by Mark Gertler and Nobuhiro Kiyotaki. A 2005 paper by Itay Goldstein and Ady Pauzner presents a model that endogenizes the probability of these events. These events partly title a 1983 paper that considers three time periods, labeled 0 through 2, in which agents don’t know at first whether they will consume in period 1 or in period 2. Hyun Song Shin analyzed an event of this kind in the UK in “Reflections on Northern Rock.” Suspension of convertibility is a response to these events. The worse of two equilibria in the Diamond–Dybvig model represents these economic events that exemplify self-fulfilling prophecy. For 10 points, deposit insurance forestalls what events, in which too many customers try to withdraw funds from a bank? ■END■
ANSWER: bank runs [accept Northern Rock bank run; prompt on bank failures or bank collapses; prompt on financial panics or financial crisis or crises; prompt on answers indicating withdrawals from banks or financial institutions; reject “recession(s)”; reject “depression(s)”] (Q*t symbolizes bank asset liquidation price at time t.)
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