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We present a quantitative model of deposit insurance. We characterize the policymaker's optimal choices of coverage for depositors and premiums raised from banks. Premiums contribute to a deposit insurance fund that lowers taxpayers' resolution cost of bank failures. We find that riskadjusted...
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The paper analyses the relationship between deposit insurance, debt-holder monitoring, charter values and risk taking. Utilising cross-sectional and time series variation in the existence of deposit insurance schemes in the EU, we find that the establishment of explicit deposit insurance...
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The paper analyses the relationship between deposit insurance, debt-holder monitoring, and risk taking. In a stylised banking model we show that deposit insurance may reduce moral hazard, if deposit insurance credibly leaves out non-deposit creditors. Testing the model using EU bank level data...
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This paper tests financial contagion due to interbank linkages. For identification we exploit an idiosyncratic, sudden shock caused by a large-bank failure in conjunction with detailed data on interbank exposures. First, we find robust evidence that higher interbank exposure to the failed bank...
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This paper tests financial contagion due to interbank linkages. For identification we exploit an idiosyncratic, sudden shock caused by a large-bank failure in conjunction with detailed data on interbank exposures. First, we find robust evidence that higher interbank exposure to the failed bank...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013149413
The paper shows that mispriced deposit insurance and capital regulation were of second order importance in determining the capital structure of large U.S. and European banks during 1991 to 2004. Instead, standard cross-sectional determinants of non-financial firms' leverage carry over to banks,...
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We present a quantitative model of deposit insurance. We characterize the policymaker’s optimal choices of coverage for depositors and premiums raised from banks. Premiums contribute to a deposit insurance fund that lowers taxpayers’ resolution cost of bank failures. We find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013403174
. We present evidence consistent with banks' IT adoption spurring entrepreneurship through a collateral channel …' ability to determine collateral values, in particular when collateral appraisal is more complex. IT also reduces the time and …
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We show that the liquidation value of collateral depends on who is pledging it. We employ transaction-level data on … collateral that they pledge. The premium in corporate loan markets amounts to 25 basis points. Our results imply that liquidation … value contains a component at the borrower-collateral level, and that lenders monitor and price-in the interdependency …
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repurchase agreements (“Repos”). By varying haircuts applied to securities that serve as collateral in repurchase agreements the …
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