Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/94109 
Year of Publication: 
2006
Series/Report no.: 
SFB/TR 15 Discussion Paper No. 107
Publisher: 
Sonderforschungsbereich/Transregio 15 - Governance and the Efficiency of Economic Systems (GESY), München
Abstract: 
This paper yields a rationale for why subsidized public banks may be desirable from a regional perspective in a financially integrated economy. We present a model with credit rationing and heterogeneous regions in which public banks prevent a capital drain from poorer to richer regions by subsidizing local depositors, for example, through a public guarantee. Under some conditions, cooperative banks can perform the same function without any subsidization; however, they may be crowded out by public banks. We also discuss the impact of the political structure on the emergence of public banks in a political-economy setting and the role of interregional mobility.
Subjects: 
Public banks
cooperative banks
capital drain
credit rationing
financial integration
privatization
JEL: 
G21
F36
H11
L33
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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