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The Political Economy of the U.S. Mortgage Default Crisis
Mian, Atif - 2008
We examine the determinants of congressional voting behavior on two of the most significant pieces of federal legislation in U.S. economic history: the American Housing Rescue and Foreclosure Prevention Act of 2008 and the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008. We find evidence that...
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A Fistful of Dollars : Lobbying and the Financial Crisis
Igan, Deniz - 2011
Has lobbying by financial institutions contributed to the financial crisis? This paper uses detailed information on … financial institutions' lobbying and mortgage lending activities to answer this question. We find that lobbying was associated … with more risk-taking during 2000-07 and with worse outcomes in 2008. In particular, lenders lobbying more intensively on …
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Can Output Losses Following International Financial Crises be Avoided?
Dooley, Michael P. - 2000
Recent financial crises in emerging markets have been followed by temporary but substantial losses in output. This paper explores the possibility that threats of such losses are the dominant incentive for repayment of international debt. In this environment private debtors and creditors have...
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Capital Movements, Banking Insolvency, and Silent Runs in the Asian Financial Crisis
Kane, Edward J. - 2000
This paper supplies an agency-cost and contestable-markets perspective on the financial policies that triggered the Asian financial crisis. The agency-cost analysis hypothesizes that individual-country regulators knew that politically directed loans had made their banks insolvent, but...
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Debt and Default in the 1930s : Causes and Consequences
Eichengreen, Barry J. - 1985
This paper analyzes the "debt crisis" of the 1930s to see what light this historical experience sheds on recent difficulties in international capital markets. We first consider patterns of overseas lending and borrowing in the 1920s and 1930s, comparing the performance of standard models of...
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What Hinders Investment in the Aftermath of Financial Crises : Insolvent Firms or Illiquid Banks?
Kalemli-Ozcan, Sebnem - 2010
We quantify the effects of lending and balance sheet channels on corporate investment during large crises in emerging markets. The depreciated currency creates investment opportunities in the tradable sector but firms might be financially constrained due to: 1) a deterioration of their balance...
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Leverage and Asset Bubbles : Averting Armageddon with Chapter 11?
Miller, Marcus - 2010
driving asset prices to 'overshoot' equilibrium when an asset bubble bursts--threatening widespread insolvency and what …
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Optimal taxation in the presence of bailouts
Panageas, Stavros - 2009
The termination of a representative financial firm due to excessive leverage may lead to substantial bankruptcy costs. A government in the tradition of Ramsey (1927) may be inclined to provide transfers to the firm so as to prevent its liquidation and the associated deadweight costs. It is shown...
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Hedge Funds as Liquidity Providers : Evidence from the Lehman Bankruptcy
Aragon, George O. - 2009
Using the September 15, 2008 bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers as an exogenous shock to funding costs, we show that hedge funds act as liquidity providers. Hedge funds using Lehman as prime broker could not trade after the bankruptcy, and these funds failed twice as often as otherwise-similar funds...
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Bailouts, the Incentive to Manage Risk, and Financial Crises
Panageas, Stavros - 2009
A firm's termination leads to bankruptcy costs. This may create an incentive for outside stakeholders or the firm's debtholders to bail out the firm as bankruptcy looms. Because of this implicit guarantee, firm shareholders have an incentive to increase volatility in order to exploit the...
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