Flight from safety : how a change to the deposit insurance limit affects households' portfolio allocation / by H. Evren Damar, Reint Gropp and Adi Mordel.: FB3-5/2019-29E-PDF
"We study how an increase to the deposit insurance limit affects households' portfolio allocation by exogenously increasing the share of safe financial assets. Using unique data that identify insured versus uninsured deposits, along with detailed information on Canadian households' portfolio holdings, we show that households respond by drawing down deposits and shifting towards mutual funds and stocks. These outflows amount to 2.8% of outstanding deposits in the banking system. The empirical evidence, consistent with a standard portfolio choice model that is modified to accommodate uninsured deposits, indicates that more generous deposit insurance coverage results in non-trivial adjustments to household portfolios"--Abstract, page ii.
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| Department/Agency | Bank of Canada. |
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| Title | Flight from safety : how a change to the deposit insurance limit affects households' portfolio allocation / by H. Evren Damar, Reint Gropp and Adi Mordel. |
| Variant title | How a change to the deposit insurance limit affects households' portfolio allocation |
| Series title | Bank of Canada staff working paper, 1701-9397 ; 2019-29 |
| Publication type | Series - View Master Record |
| Language | [English] |
| Format | Electronic |
| Electronic document | |
| Note(s) | "August 2019." Includes bibliographical references (pages 33-36). |
| Publishing information | Ottawa, Ontario, Canada : Bank of Canada = Banque du Canada, 2019. ©2019 |
| Author / Contributor | Damar, H. Evren (Halil Evren)author. Gropp, Reint, author. Mordel, Adi, author. |
| Description | 1 online resource (ii, 45, 3 pages) : illustrations (some colour). |
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| Subject terms | Savings Insurance |
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