Will the U.S. bank recapitalization succeed? Eight lessons from Japan
During the financial crisis that started in 2007, the U.S. government has used a variety of tools to try to rehabilitate the U.S. banking industry. Many of those strategies were also used in Japan to combat its banking problems in the 1990s. There are also a surprising number of other similarities between the current U.S. crisis and the recent Japanese crisis. The Japanese policies were only partially successful in recapitalizing the banks until the economy finally started to recover in 2003. From these unsuccessful attempts, we derive eight lessons. In light of these eight lessons, we assess the policies the U.S. has pursued. The U.S. has ignored three of the lessons and it is too early to evaluate the U.S. policies with respect to four of the others. So far, the U.S. has avoided Japan's problem of having impaired banks prop up zombie firms.
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2010
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Authors: | Hoshi, Takeo ; Kashyap, Anil K |
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Journal of Financial Economics. - Elsevier, ISSN 0304-405X. - Vol. 97.2010, 3, p. 398-417
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Elsevier |
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