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Safety-Net Benefits Conferred on Difficult-to-Fail-and-Unwind Banks in the US and EU Before and During the Great Recession

Carbo-Valverde, Santiago - 2011

This paper models and estimates ex ante safety-net benefits at a sample of large banks in US and Europe during 2003-2008. Our results suggest that difficult-to-fail and unwind (DFU) banks enjoyed substantially higher ex ante benefits than other institutions. Safety-net benefits prove...

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Fiscal and Migration Competition

Razin, Assaf - 2010

The paper models the host country stylistically as a member of the core of an economic union (i.e., a core EU welfare …. The source country is modeled as an accession country to an economic union (i.e., through the EU enlargement treaty), with …

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Evidence of Regulatory Arbitrage in Cross-Border Mergers of Banks in the EU

Carbo-Valverde, Santiago - 2009

banks in individual EU countries help to explain the nature of cross-border merger activity. If they wish to protect …

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The Skill Composition of Migration and the Generosity of the Welfare State

Cohen, Alon - 2009

Skilled migrants typically contribute to the welfare state more than they draw in benefits from it. The opposite holds for unskilled migrants. This suggests that a host country is likely to boost (respectively, curtail) its welfare system when absorbing high-skill (respectively, low-skill)...

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Evidence of Differences in the Effectiveness of Safety-Net Management in European Union Countries

Carbo-Valverde, Santiago - 2008

EU financial safety nets are social contracts that assign uncertain benefits and burdens to taxpayers in different … develops a way to estimate how well markets and regulators in 14 of the EU-15 countries have controlled deposit … safety-net benefits for individual EU financial institutions. For stockholder-owned banks, input data feature 1993-2004 data …

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Incentive Conflict In Central-Bank Responses to Sectoral Turmoil in Financial Hub Countries

Kane, Edward J. - 2007

National safety nets are imbedded in country-specific regulatory cultures that encompass contradictory goals of nationalistic welfare maximization, merciful treatment of distressed institutions, and bureaucratic blame avoidance. Focusing on this goal conflict, this paper develops two hypotheses....

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Inadequacy of Nation-Based and VaR-Based Safety Nets in the European Union

Kane, Edward J. - 2006

-at-risk and bank capital make it unlikely that the crisis-prevention and crisis-resolution schemes incorporated in Basel II and EU …

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Vying for Foreign Direct Investment : A EU-type Model of Tax Competition

Razin, Assaf - 2006

among the EU 15 and EU 10 in the enlarged European Union, as of 2004. We also demonstrate that the notion that the mere …

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Can the European Community Afford to Neglect the Need for More Accountable Safety-Net Management?

Kane, Edward J. - 2005

As financial institutions and markets transact more and more cross-border business, gaps and flaws in national safety nets become more consequential. Because citizens of host (home) countries may be made to pay for mistakes made in the home (host) country, Basel's lead-regulator paradigm...

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Capital Income Taxation in the Globalized World

Razin, Assaf - 2004

the bottom. This behavior has been perhaps most pronounced in the EU-15 following the single market act of 1992. The 2004 … enlargement of the EU with 10 new entrants put a strong downward pressure on capital income taxation for the EU-15 countries. Tax …

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