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Political connections, government capital injection, and deposit insurance premium

Jyh-Horng Lin (Tamkang University, New Taipei City, Taiwan)
Shi Chen (School of Economics, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, Chengdu, China)
Fu-Wei Huang (Department of Management Sciences, Tamkang University, New Taipei City, Taiwan)

International Journal of Managerial Finance

ISSN: 1743-9132

Article publication date: 2 October 2018

Issue publication date: 8 March 2019

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Abstract

Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to develop a capped barrier option framework to consider the politically preferential treatment for bank loans incentivized by government capital injections and calculate loan-risk sensitive insurance premiums.

Design/methodology/approach

This paper takes a capped barrier option approach to the market valuation of the equity of the bank and the liability of the deposit insurer. The cap demonstrates the dynamics of a politically connected borrowing firm’s asset and highlights the truncated nature of loan payoffs. The barrier addresses that default can occur at any time before the maturity date. The bank participating in a government capital injection program is required to fund the politically connected firm that has preferential access to financing.

Findings

Political connection as such makes the bank more prone to risk taking at a reduced interest margin, produces greater safety for the bank owing to government capital injections, and leads to increasing the fair deposit insurance premium. The positive effect of political connection on the deposit insurance premium, which ignores the cap and the barrier yields significant over-estimation.

Originality/value

The study on the politically connected borrowing firm shows that political connection is likely to affect the distressed bank’s performance, yielding the political-connection cost of a reduced bank interest margin and the political-connection benefit of a reduced bank equity risk, contributing the literature on political connection and bank bailout.

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Acknowledgements

The authors would like to thank Rosemary Jou and an anonymous referee for their helpful comments and suggestions. The usual disclaimer applies.

Citation

Lin, J.-H., Chen, S. and Huang, F.-W. (2019), "Political connections, government capital injection, and deposit insurance premium", International Journal of Managerial Finance, Vol. 15 No. 1, pp. 2-18. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJMF-12-2017-0271

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Emerald Publishing Limited

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