The Threat of Capital Drain: A Rationale for Public Banks?

36 Pages Posted: 7 Jun 2006

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Hendrik Hakenes

University of Bonn - Economic Science Area

Isabel Schnabel

University of Bonn - Institute for Financial Economics and Statistics; Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods

Date Written: April 2006

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.

Keywords: Public banks, cooperative banks, capital drain, credit rationing, financial integration, privatization

JEL Classification: G21, F36, H11, L33

Suggested Citation

Hakenes, Hendrik and Schnabel, Isabel, The Threat of Capital Drain: A Rationale for Public Banks? (April 2006). MPI Collective Goods Preprint No. 2006/11, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=906993 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.906993

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Isabel Schnabel

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