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Deposit Insurance, Bank Ownership and Depositor Behavior

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  • Sumeyra Atmaca

    (Ghent University)

  • Karolin Kirschenmann

    (ZEW – Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research)

  • Steven Ongena

    (University of Zurich - Department of Banking and Finance; Swiss Finance Institute; KU Leuven; Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR))

  • Koen J. L. Schoors

    (Ghent University - Centre for Russian International Socio-Political and Economic Studies (CERISE); Ghent University - Department of General Economics)

Abstract

We employ proprietary data from a large bank to analyze how – in times of crisis – depositors react to a bank nationalization, re-privatization and an accompanying increase in deposit insurance. Nationalization slows depositors fleeing the bank, provided they have sufficient trust in the national government, while the increase in deposit insurance spurs depositors below the new 100K limit to deposit more. Prior to nationalization, depositors bunch just below the then-prevailing 20K limit. But they abandon bunching entirely during state-ownership, to return to bunching below the new 100K limit after re-privatization. Especially depositors with low switching costs are moving money around.

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  • Sumeyra Atmaca & Karolin Kirschenmann & Steven Ongena & Koen J. L. Schoors, 2021. "Deposit Insurance, Bank Ownership and Depositor Behavior," Swiss Finance Institute Research Paper Series 21-56, Swiss Finance Institute.
    • Handle: RePEc:chf:rpseri:rp2156
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    JEL classification:

    • G21 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services - - - Banks; Other Depository Institutions; Micro Finance Institutions; Mortgages
    • G28 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services - - - Government Policy and Regulation
    • H13 - Public Economics - - Structure and Scope of Government - - - Economics of Eminent Domain; Expropriation; Nationalization
    • N23 - Economic History - - Financial Markets and Institutions - - - Europe: Pre-1913

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