Special Surcharge on Deposits, Reaction of Financial Institutions, and Household Burden Structure (Written in Korean)

• Main Authors: Kang, Dong soo, Sung, Tae yoon
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Korea Development Institute 2003-06-01
• Series: KDI Journal of Economic Policy
• Subjects: 특별예금보험료; 금융 및 기업구조조정; 공적자금; 예대스프레드; 가계자산 포트폴리오
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.23895/kdijep.2003.25.1.1

This paper studies the effects of the special surcharge on deposits, proposed as a plan to finance the costs of restructuring Korean corporate and financial sectors. Specifically, the study analyzes the change in the autonomous behavior of economic agents in terms of cost transfer and substitution effects. Given the result that the growth rate of deposits does not respond to the change of interest rates so much as that of loans, financial institutions have more incentive to transfer the costs incurred by the special surcharge to depositors. This paper also reports that the portfolio of households show a noteworthy feature that insured deposits have a relatively small portion in terms of total assets for high-asset class households, whereas most assets for low-asset class households are subject to the special surcharge.