How do insured deposits affect bank risk? Evidence from the 2008 Emergency Economic Stabilization Act : [version december 2013]
- This paper tests whether an increase in insured deposits causes banks to become more risky. We use variation introduced by the U.S. Emergency Economic Stabilization Act in October 2008, which increased the deposit insurance coverage from $100,000 to $250,000 per depositor and bank. For some banks, the amount of insured deposits increased significantly; for others, it was a minor change. Our analysis shows that the more affected banks increase their investments in risky commercial real estate loans and become more risky relative to unaffected banks following the change. This effect is most distinct for affected banks that are low capitalized.
| Author: | Claudia Lambert, Felix Noth, Ulrich Schüwer |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-331488 |
| URL: | http://ssrn.com/abstract=2369236 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2369236 |
| Parent Title (German): | SAFE working paper series ; No. 38 |
| Series (Serial Number): | SAFE working paper (38) |
| Publisher: | SAFE |
| Place of publication: | Frankfurt am Main |
| Document Type: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English |
| Year of Completion: | 2013 |
| Year of first Publication: | 2013 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Release Date: | 2014/03/03 |
| Tag: | bank regulation; deposit insurance; financial crisis |
| Issue: | version december 2013 |
| Page Number: | 45 |
| First Page: | 1 |
| Last Page: | 42 |
| HeBIS-PPN: | 348920504 |
| Institutes: | Wirtschaftswissenschaften / Wirtschaftswissenschaften |
| Wissenschaftliche Zentren und koordinierte Programme / Sustainable Architecture for Finance in Europe (SAFE) | |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 33 Wirtschaft / 330 Wirtschaft |
| Sammlungen: | Universitätspublikationen |
| Licence (German): |  Deutsches Urheberrecht |
