The option clause is incentive-compatible: if correctly designed with the right interest rate, it only pays a bank to invoke it (rather than wind up) when the bank is actually solvent but facing an irrational panic; an insolvent bank with bad loans gains nothing from invoking it and simply shuts down—so it creates no moral hazard.
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George SelginEvidence Quote
“it's a it's an incentive compatible arrangement and that's why it didn't produce any sort of hazard to have it there”
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