Depositor behavior and market discipline in Colombia

This study examines how depositors choose among different banks and over time in Colombia, focusing on whether they discipline bank behavior. By controlling for a more comprehensive set of risk/return factors, the study improves upon conventional market discipline tests. Panel data estimations for 1985-99 show that depositors prefer banks with stronger fundamentals, and that banks tend to improve their fundamentals after being "punished" by depositors. Banks with stronger fundamentals benefit from lower interest costs and higher lending rates. Market (or "regulatory") discipline therefore appears to exist in Colombia, perhaps thanks to certain key design features of the deposit insurance scheme.

• Autores: Barajas E., Adolfo; Steiner Sampedro, Roberto
• Tipo de recurso: Work document
• Fecha de publicación: 2001
• Institución: Universidad de los Andes
• Repositorio: Séneca: repositorio Uniandes
• Idioma: eng
• OAI Identifier: oai:repositorio.uniandes.edu.co:1992/7925
• Acceso en línea: http://hdl.handle.net/1992/7925
• Palabra clave: Banking system; Market discipline; Deposit insurance; Colombia; Seguros de depósitos bancarios - Colombia; Instituciones financieras - Colombia; Política monetaria - Colombia - 1985-1999; G21
• Rights: openAccess
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/