Abstract: | After the financial crisis, the pace of the establishment of deposit insurance system has been accelerated in the world. In May 2015, China became the 114th country that established explicit deposit insurance system. Based on micro-data of 1122 listed banks in 80 countries in the world, this paper examines the impact of deposit insurance system on bank risk-taking. It finds that the deposit insurance system increases the level of bank risk-taking, which indicates moral hazard effect.In addition, this article also studies 5 characteristics deposit insurance systems and how they affect the risk-taking of bank, including the nature of deposit insurance institutions, the management of deposit insurance funds, risk differential rates, deposit insurance fund sources and mutual insurance. Finally, based on empirical findings, it puts forward some suggestion. |