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In March 1985, the failure of the Ohio Deposit Guarantee Fund (the ODGF) sent shock waves reverberating through the financial world. This episode is popularly interpreted as evidence of the dangers of both private deposit insurance and continuing financial deregulation. This paper argues that...
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, these interventions, both individually and jointly, are chosen and undertaken ex post. The costs of liquidation and …
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We investigate the relationships of bank failures and balance sheet conditions with measures of proximity to different forms of transportation in the United States over the period from 1830-1860. A series of hazard models and bank-level regressions indicate a systematic relationship between...
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Unlike the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation and the Bank Insurance Fund, the National Credit Union Share Insurance Fund (NCUSIF) entered the 1990s in a state of accounting solvency. This paper develops evidence to show the more important fact that NCUSIF remained solvent in a...
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The costs of government assistance to banks depend on the way rescues are managed. The cnetral questions of policy … benefits and reduce the costs of government support for banks …
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This paper evaluates changes in fuel procurement practices by coal- and gas-fired power plants in the United States following state-level legislation that ended cost-of-service regulation of electricity generation. I find that deregulated plants substantially reduce the price paid for coal (but...
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, are the most overt costs of war. They are also relatively short-lived. The costs of war borne by combatants and their … that a significant component of the public costs associated with U.S. wars are long-lived. One third to one half of the … total present value of historical war costs have been absorbed by benefits distributed over the remaining life spans of …
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In response to the Financial Crisis of 2008, macroeconomic policymakers employed a range of tools designed to prevent failures of large, complex financial institutions ("banks"). The Treasury and the Fed justified these actions by arguing that bank failures exacerbate output declines, rather...
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The recent unravelling of the Eurozone's financial integration raised concerns about feedback loops between sovereign and banking insolvency. This paper provides a theory of the feedback loop that allows for both domestic bailouts of the banking system and sovereign debt forgiveness by...
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;L crisis on interest rates is small, the increased cost of financing the public debt adds significantly to the total costs …
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