The paper surveys the characteristics of explicit systems of deposit insurance in 68 countries. It compares these … best practices seek to establish a system of deposit insurance that provides incentives for all parties—whether they are …

lifted, banks in low-risk developed countries benefit from lending funds captured in home markets at low deposit rates to … high-risk/high-yield projects in emerging economies, even though these projects command lower expected returns. This, in …

the lowest feasible level of bank risk. Conversely, if the intermediation technology exhibits constant returns to scale …

denominated debt subject to a risk premium above and beyond international interest rates. We use Bayesian estimation techniques to … market countries. Using Korean data, we obtain an estimate for the external risk premium, indicating the importance of the …

This paper argues that in the European Union (EU) deposit insurance funds are too difficult to use in bank resolution …; establishing a common DIS for the European Union; and increasing funding and backstops for deposit insurance while removing …

stock markets. Our technique relies on estimating and comparing expected risk-free rates across assets. Expected risk …-free rates are allowed to vary freely over time, constrained only by the fact that they must be equal across (risk …-adjusted) assets in well integrated markets. Assets are allowed to have standard risk characteristics, and are constrained by a factor …