Determinants of deposit-insurance adoption and design / Edward Kane J, Luc Laeven, Asli Demirguc-Kunt.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Policy research working papers ; no. 3849Publication details: Washington, D. C : World Bank, 2006.Description: 74p : ill. ; 27 cmSubject(s):
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"The authors seek to identify factors that influence decisions about a Country's financial safety net, using a new dataset on 170 Countries covering the 1960-2003 period. Specifically, they focus on how outside influences, economic development, crisis pressures, and political institutions affect deposit insurance adoption and design. Controlling for the influence of economic characteristics and events such as macroeconomic shocks, occurrence and severity of crises, and institutional development, they find that pressure to emulate developed-country regulatory frameworks and power-sharing political institutions dispose a country toward adopting design features that inadequately control risk-shifting-"World Bank web site.

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