{"title":"Deposit insurance pricing and monetary policy transmission","authors":"Steve Billon , Natalia Andries","doi":"10.1016/j.econmod.2025.107318","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper provides a theoretical model that examines the effect of deposit insurance pricing on the transmission of monetary policy. Banks operate in an environment of monopolistic competition and face uncertain returns on firms’ investment projects. A deposit insurance scheme allows for mispricing relative to the fair premium, whereby under- or overpricing has an implicit subsidy or tax effect on deposits. Mispricing in deposit insurance shifts household portfolio allocation between bonds and bank deposits and creates externalities on monetary policy transmission on bank deposits, loans, bonds, and their respective interest rates. The distortion increases when the coverage of deposit insurance is extended. Conversely, fair pricing ensures the neutrality of deposit insurance on interest rate pass-through.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48419,"journal":{"name":"Economic Modelling","volume":"153 ","pages":"Article 107318"},"PeriodicalIF":4.7000,"publicationDate":"2025-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Economic Modelling","FirstCategoryId":"96","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S026499932500313X","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"ECONOMICS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
This paper provides a theoretical model that examines the effect of deposit insurance pricing on the transmission of monetary policy. Banks operate in an environment of monopolistic competition and face uncertain returns on firms’ investment projects. A deposit insurance scheme allows for mispricing relative to the fair premium, whereby under- or overpricing has an implicit subsidy or tax effect on deposits. Mispricing in deposit insurance shifts household portfolio allocation between bonds and bank deposits and creates externalities on monetary policy transmission on bank deposits, loans, bonds, and their respective interest rates. The distortion increases when the coverage of deposit insurance is extended. Conversely, fair pricing ensures the neutrality of deposit insurance on interest rate pass-through.
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Economic Modelling fills a major gap in the economics literature, providing a single source of both theoretical and applied papers on economic modelling. The journal prime objective is to provide an international review of the state-of-the-art in economic modelling. Economic Modelling publishes the complete versions of many large-scale models of industrially advanced economies which have been developed for policy analysis. Examples are the Bank of England Model and the US Federal Reserve Board Model which had hitherto been unpublished. As individual models are revised and updated, the journal publishes subsequent papers dealing with these revisions, so keeping its readers as up to date as possible.