On the effects of deposit insurance and observability on bank runs: an experimental study
Kiss, Hubert Janos, Rodriguez-Lara, Ismael and Rosa-García, Alfonso (2012) On the effects of deposit insurance and observability on bank runs: an experimental study. Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 44 (8) . pp. 1651-1665. ISSN 0022-2879 [Article] (doi:10.1111/j.1538-4616.2012.00548.x)
Abstract
We study the effects of deposit insurance and observability of previous actions on the emergence of bank runs by means of a controlled laboratory experiment. We consider three depositors in the line of a bank, who decide between withdrawing or keeping their money deposited. We have three treatments with different levels of deposit insurance which reflect the losses a depositor may incur in the case of a bank run. We find that different levels of deposit insurance and the possibility of observing other depositors’ actions affect the likelihood of bank runs. When decisions are not observable, higher levels of deposit insurance decrease the probability of bank runs. When decisions are observable, this need not to be the case. These results suggest that (i) observability might be considered as a partial substitute of deposit insurance and (ii) the optimal deposit insurance should take into account the degree of observability.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Research Areas: | A. > Business School > Economics |
| Item ID: | 11970 |
| Depositing User: | Users 3197 not found. |
| Date Deposited: | 19 Sep 2013 10:55 |
| Last Modified: | 24 Oct 2018 09:53 |
| URI: | https://eprints.mdx.ac.uk/id/eprint/11970 |
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