Bank Failures and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation [electronic resource]

Provides overview of FDIC and explains pricing of deposit insurance, highlighting procyclical bias injected into the pricing of deposit insurance. Addresses recent FDIC efforts to replenish Deposit Insurance Fund (DIF), the proceeds of which are used to pay depositors if member institutions fail; an...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via ProQuest)
Corporate Author:	Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	[S.l] : [s.n.], 2009.
Subjects:	Deposit insurance. Bank failures. Banks and banking.