Banking crises, liquidity, and credit lines : a macroeconomic perspective / Gurbachan Singh.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Introduction -- 2. Bank Solvency and Systemic Stability -- 3. The Rationale for Demand Deposits (and Short-Term Funds) -- 4. Literature Review, and the Road Ahead -- 5. Near-Systemic Bank Runs, Given Flexible More-Reputed Bank -- 6. Systemic Bank Runs, Given Flexible Central Bank -- 7. Systemic Bank Runs, Given Gold Standard -- 8. Implications of Inelastic Supply of Desired Assets -- 9. Bank Runs, Portfolio Choice, and Adjustment Mechanism -- 10. Bank Runs, Liquidity, and Consumption Smoothing -- 11. Bank Runs, and the Broad Policy Framework -- 12. Sudden Capital Outflow, Emerging Economies, and Credit Lines -- 13. 100% Reserve Banking, and the Nature of Inefficiency -- 14. More on Banking Crisis and Liquidity -- 15. Theory and the Actual Experience -- 16. Summing Up.