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We examine whether the economy can be insured against banking crises with deposit and loan contracts contingent on macroeconomic shocks. We study banking competition and show that the private sector insures the banking system through such contracts, and banking crises are avoided, provided that...
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This paper analyzes the influence of market discipline on the risk-taking incentives of banks. It is shown that market discipline reduces risk if banks can credibly commit to a given level of risk before the interest rate on deposits is set. If, however, the bank can readjust the level of risk...
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This paper investigates how deposit insurance and capital adequacy affect bank risk for five developed and nine emerging markets over the period of 1992–2015. Although full coverage of deposit insurance induces moral hazard by banks, deposit insurance is still an effective tool, especially...
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even though policymakers are aware of its pitfalls in both theory and practice. In our model, the regulator acts as both a … bureaucrat and an entrepreneur to maximize his self-interest through administering a deposit insurance scheme. The theory …. Empirically our theory is supported by the stylized facts, cross-country binary-choice regression results and a case study of …
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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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perapplicant fixed costs in screening. We then demonstrate that our theory fits the data better than the main alternative theory … already in the literature, which supposes cutoff rules are exogenously used by securitizers. Furthermore, we use our theory to …
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