, China's stimulus boosted real GDP growth from an annualized 6.2% in the first quarter of 2009 trough to 11.9% in the first … speed and efficacy of China's stimulus derives from state control over its banking system and corporate sector. Beijing … ordered state-owned banks to lend, and they lent. Beijing ordered centrally-controlled state-owned enterprises (SOEs) to …

earlier dataset by including recent adopters of deposit insurance and information on the use of government guarantees on banks … generosity of the deposit insurance scheme and government guarantees on banks' balance sheets. The data show that deposit … temporary increase in the government protection of non-deposit liabilities and bank assets. In most cases, these guarantees have …

1933 and its aftermath. Using a new database on Michigan banks, we employ probit and survival duration analysis to examine … that the loan program had no statistically significant effect on the failure rates of banks during the crisis; point … parallel analysis of the effects of RFC preferred stock assistance on the loan supply of surviving banks. We find that RFC …

banks that pledged asset-backed securities as collateral for these loans. The data and analysis illustrate the major role … that foreign - in particular, European - banks currently play in the U.S. financial system and the resultant currency … mismatch in their balance sheets. The data suggest that foreign banks had to borrow from the Federal Reserve Bank to meet their …

government bond returns, a position that generated "carry" until the deteriorating GIPSI bond returns inflicted losses on banks …. The positive GIPSI loadings correlate with banks' holdings of GIPSI bonds; and, the negative German loading with banks …' short-term debt exposures. Consistent with moral hazard in the form of risk-taking by large, under-capitalized banks to …