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evolution of events. In particular, deposit insurance alone can not provide an intertemporal shock smoothing and requires …
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soundness and public confidence has been enact a law for deposit insurance. In this paper are discussed base principles for … deposit insurance system design and Bulgarian deposit insurance system is assessed according it. …
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This paper examines how international depositors respond to national deposit insurance policies. Countries with … explicit deposit insurance are found to be relatively attractive to international non-bank depositors. Deposit schemes … characterized by coinsurance, a private administration, and a low deposit insurance premium appear to be particularly favored by …
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closed-form solutions for the valuation of liabilities, the cost of deposit insurance and the value of bankruptcy costs of a … the effects of DES contract versus subordinated debt on bank stability, depositor protection, incentives for risk taking … is beneficial as a tool for monitoring due to its negative sensitivity to increase in assets risk. However, when the …
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This paper argues that an optimal deposit insurance scheme would allow the level of insurance coverage to be determined … by the market. Based on this principle, the paper proposes an insurance scheme that minimizes distortions and embodies … fairness and credibility, two essential characteristics of a viable and effective deposit insurance scheme. Using a simple …
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We examine wealth effects, for banks and insurers, of bank rights to sell and underwrite annuities. The stock-price reactions to four court and regulatory decisions are consistent with expectations of bank gains at insurers' expense. Cross-sectionally, smaller, riskier insurers with higher...
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This paper deals with the optimality of teacher incentive contracts in the presence of costly or limited government resources. It considers educational production under asymmetric information as a function of teacher effort and class size. In the presence of costly government resources and...
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While the aggregate macroeconomic analysis of the recent Asian Crisis highlights the moral hazard problem of bad loans in poorly supervised and regulated East Asian economies, there is very little firm-level analysis to characterize it. The present paper attempts to fill in this gap of the...
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Despite the seminal work of Claessens et al. (2002), who highlighted the role of ownership structure on firm performance in East Asia, the relationship between capital structure and ownership remains much unexplored. This is important, given recent empirical and theoretical work linking capital...
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Insurance fraud, which adds an estimated $85 billion per year to the total insurance bill in the U.S., is an extremely … serious problem for consumers, regulators, and insurance companies. This paper analyzes the effects of state legislation and … market conditions on automobile insurance fraud from 1988 to 1999, a period representing a substantial increase in the …
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