Experimental evidence on bank runs under partial deposit insurance

Oana Peia and Radu Vranceanu

No WP1705, ESSEC Working Papers from ESSEC Research Center, ESSEC Business School

Abstract: This paper presents experimental evidence on depositor behavior under partial deposit insurance schemes. In the experiment, the size of a deposit insurance fund cannot fully cover all deposits and the level of insurance depends on the number of depositors running on the bank. We show that this form of strategic uncertainty about deposit coverage exerts a significant impact on the propensity to withdraw, and results in a large frequency of bank runs. Runs are more likely when depositors have noisy information about the size of the insurance fund and as the maximum coverage increases, in line with a risk-dominant equilibrium selection mechanism. From a policy perspective, our results emphasize the limits of underfunded deposit insurance schemes in preventing systemic banking crises.

Keywords: Bank runs; Deposit insurance; Risk dominance; Global games (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C91 D83 G02 G21 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 25 pages
Date: 2017-04-11
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-exp, nep-gth and nep-ias
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