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In the recent years, the focus of the world is on the global financial crisis caused by the U.S. subprime mortgage meltdown, which had led to the financial crises of investment banks such as The Bear Steams Companies Inc. and Lehman Brothers Holding Inc., one after another, making a huge impact on the global economy. In view of this rare systematic financial crisis, and in order to effectively restore depositors’ confidence, Premier Liu Chao-shiuan announced the policy of “full deposit guarantee from the government for all the domestic bank deposit accounts” in October 2008. However, the question is, can the insurance companies in Taiwan afford the loss from the bankruptcy of banks? The literature of deposit insurance valuation only incorporates the effect of bank’s asset risk. However, such model ignores the risk of CDIC default. This study follows the method by Episcopos (2004), dividing deposit insurance into two types: full coverage and limited coverage. The value of full coverage is represented by Ronn and Verma’s model, while the value of limited coverage is represented by vulnerable put. By adopting the option method with credit risk and setting the coverage rate as an exogenous parameter, this study tries to link up risk-based premiums and reserve, and lastly, estimates the appropriate amount of reserve the Central Deposit Insurance Corporation should contribute when a single bank is insured, by conducting empirical research with the data of OTC and TSE banks in Taiwan in 2007.
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