Paper #175

Título:

Optimal regulation of a fully insured deposit banking system

Autores:

Xavier Freixas y Emmanuelle Gabillon

Fecha:

Mayo 1996

Resumen:

We analyze risk sensitive incentive compatible deposit insurance in the presence of private information when the market value of deposit insurance can be determined using Merton's (1997) formula. We show that, under the assumption that transferring funds from taxpayers to financial institutions has a social cost, the optimal regulation combines different levels of capital requirements combined with decreasing premia on deposit insurance. On the other hand, it is never efficient to require the banks to hold riskless assets, so that narrow banking is not efficient. Finally, chartering banks is necessary in order to decrease the cost of asymmetric information.

Palabras clave:

Regulation,mechanism design,deposit insurance pricing,capital requirements

Códigos JEL:

G13, G21

Área de investigación:

Finanzas y Contabilidad

Publicado en:

Journal of Regulatory Economics, 16, 2, (1999), pp. 111-134

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