Deposit Insurance and Depositor Behavior: Evidence from Colombia

Nicolás de Roux and Nicola Limodio

The Review of Financial Studies, 2023, vol. 36, issue 7, 2721-2755

Abstract: This paper studies the effect of deposit insurance on depositor behavior. Our theoretical framework integrates insights from public and financial economics and predicts that (1) deposit insurance induces bunching at the threshold in the deposit distribution and (2) an increase in the insurance threshold promotes deposit growth, particularly higher for individuals bunching at the initial limit. We exploit a large and unexpected increase in the Colombian insurance together with monthly depositor-level records from a major bank to test these predictions. We validate the existence of bunching in deposits and quantify the heterogeneous effect of deposit insurance on individual deposit growth.Authors have furnished an Internet Appendix, which is available on the Oxford University Press Web site next to the link to the final published paper online.

JEL-codes: G21 G28 G51 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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