Intro -- Contents -- Contributors -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- I Introduction -- 1 Deposit Insurance Design and Implementation: Policy Lessons from Research and Practice -- II Deposit Insurance: Adoption, Pricing, and Linkages with Insolvency Resolution -- 2 Adoption and Design of Deposit...

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