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On the welfare equivalence of asset markets and banking in Diamond Dybvig economies
Why do people choose bank deposit contracts over a direct participation in asset markets? In their
seminal paper, Diamond and Dybvig’s (1983) answer this question by claiming that bank deposit contracts
can implement allocations that are welfare superior to asset markets equilibria. The present paper
demonstrates that this claim is false whenever the asset market participants are highly rational.