The Gathering Crisis in Federal Deposit Insurance

by Edward J. Kane

The system of federal deposit insurance adopted during the 1930s has become increasingly costly and unreliable. This timely study warns bankers, regulators, politicians, and taxpayers that no matter how well the deposit-insurance system may have run in the past it is headed for an expensive bureaucratic breakdown. It forcefully argues that unless market discipline can be reintroduced, this breakdown threatens to take depository institutions into de...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262111020
• ISBN13: 9780262111027
• Release Date: August 1985
• Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.