Financial Opening, Deposit Insurance, and Risk in a Model of Banking Competition /

This paper studies the impact of competition on the determination of interest rates and banks' risk-taking behavior under different assumptions about deposit insurance and the dissemination of financial information. It finds that lower entry costs foster competition in deposit rate sand reduce...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cordella, Tito
Other Authors: Levy Yeyati, Eduardo
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 1998.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 1998/097
Online Access:Full text available on IMF