Bank Failures and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.

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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Bibliographic Details

Corporate Authors:	Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service, ProQuest (Firm)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2009.
Series:	U.S. Congressional Research.
Subjects:	Deposit insurance. Bank failures. Banks and banking. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book