Arguing that a relatively high cost of deposit insurance indicates that a bank takes excessive
risks, this article estimates the cost of deposit insurance for a large sample of banks in 14 …

Laeven aims to provide guidelines for the pricing of deposit insurance in different countries.
He presents several methodologies that can be used to set benchmarks for the pricing level …

The goal of this paper is to improve our understanding of the costs and benefits of explicit
deposit insurance. To this end, we compare the opportunity-cost value of deposit insurance …

When should regulators close a financially ailing bank? FDIC practice in the US has moved
in the direction of early closure. In contrast, banking regulators in Japan continue to follow a …

Collapsing credit markets have been blamed for the depth and persistence of the Great
Depression in the United States. Could similar mechanisms have played a role in ending the …

This paper compares bank regulation and supervision in Japan and Germany. We consider
these countries because they both have bank-dominated financial systems and their …

Banking Risks around the World Page 1 Banking Risks around the World The Implicit Safety
Net Subsidy Approach Luc Laeven 1 Abstract: We calculate gross safety net subsidies for a …

This paper examines the current status of deposit guarantees in Japan and how they have
functioned during the burst of the bubble economy in the first half of the 1990s. During this …

The paper estimates the contingent liability of the Thai government to their banking system
prior to the 1997 financial crisis by maximizing a likelihood function that utilizes the …

Abstract The Derivatives Sourcebook is a citation study and classification system that
organizes the many strands of the derivatives literature and assigns each citation to a …