Optimal Deposit Insurance / Eduardo Dávila, Itay Goldstein.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dávila, Eduardo.

Contributor:

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Goldstein, Itay.

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w28676.

NBER working paper series no. w28676

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2021.

Summary:

This paper studies the optimal determination of deposit insurance when bank runs are possible. We show that the welfare impact of changes in the level of deposit insurance coverage can be generally expressed in terms of a small number of sufficient statistics, which include the level of losses in specific scenarios and the probability of bank failure. We characterize the wedges that determine the optimal ex-ante regulation, which map to asset- and liability-side regulation. We demonstrate how to employ our framework in an application to the most recent change in coverage, which took place in 2008.

Notes:

Print version record

April 2021.