The Collective Action Problem in Banking
A widespread financial panic causes the market for short-term loans between banks to seize up. In this environment, explain why a single bank's decision to sell assets to raise cash is a logical strategy, but becomes a destructive one for the entire banking system when many banks adopt the same strategy simultaneously.
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