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Bank and Crypto Runs: F(ac)TX vs Fiction

George Selgin/November 21, 2022November 23, 2022

On October 10th, Douglas Diamond and Philip Dybvig won the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences, sharing it with Ben Bernanke "for research on banks and financial crises.” According to the prize committee, Diamond and Dybvig's research showed how the combination of borrowing short and lending long…

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