... on the bank as a coalition of depositors, of Akerlof (1970) and Leland and Pyle (1977) on the bank as an information sharing coalition, and of Diamond (1984) on the bank as delegated ( ) monitor, ... by a further extension of the present theory, by the framework of the agency theory and the theory of asymmetric information The question goes into the heart of the present theory, into the paradigm ... on the merits of the present theory of financial intermediation, on what it does and does not explain from both a practical and a theoretical point of view The theory is impressive by the multitude...