An important question is whether the financial safety net reduces market discipline on bank risk taking. For countries with varying deposit insurance schemes, we find that deposit rates continue to reflect bank riskiness. Cross-country evidence suggests that explicit deposit insurance reduces...

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...

Special addresses -- Shared responsibility for the regulation of international banks / Daniel K. Tarullo -- Post-crisis risks and bank equity capital / Thomas M. Hoenig -- Reputational risks and large international banks / Ingo Walter -- The cross-border banking landscape -- Cross-border banking...