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FDIC losses in bank failures: has FDICIA made a difference?

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George P. Kaufman
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This article finds that, although the number of failed banks declined sharply after the passage of the FDIC Improvement Act (FDICIA) in 1991, losses to the FDIC as a percent of assets of failed banks actually increased. Only if adjustments are made both for large losses at a few larger outlier banks and for differences in the size distribution of failures is the FDIC's loss rate in the post-FDICIA period (1993-2002) reduced to below its pre-FDICIA (1980-92) rate.

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Volume (Year): (2004)
Issue (Month): Q III ()
Pages: 13-25
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Handle: RePEc:fip:fedhep:y:2004:i:qiii:p:13-25:n:v.28no.3

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Keywords: Bank failures ; Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation ; Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Improvement Act of 1991;

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  1. Robert A. Eisenbeis & W. Scott Frame & Larry D. Wall, 2004. "Resolving large financial intermediaries: banks versus housing enterprises," Working Paper 2004-23, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. [Downloadable!]
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  2. Robert R. Bliss & George Kaufman, 2006. "U.S. corporate and bank insolvency regimes: an economic comparison and evaluation," Working Paper Series WP-06-01, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. [Downloadable!]
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