We study lottery behavior in banking stocks and use MAX/MIN to capture loss protection from bank bailout guarantees. We … find that bank lottery preferences lead to lower short-term returns and that regulatory TARP assistance increases the … likelihood of bank lotteryness and risk taking. Lottery-type bank equities are riskier after TARP and exhibit fatter right to …

The issue of bank dividend regulation has become highly controversial as the stress induced on bank capital during the … 2008 financial crisis and the covid pandemic created a demand for enhanced regulation and restrictions on bank dividend … stockholders and depositors, and to preserve the long-term solvency of the bank. Overall our study results show that despite an …

advisors to acquirers. In particular, the target earns higher abnormal returns when the target's own bank certifies the (more …. Second, acquirers predominantly use commercial bank advisors to obtain access to bank loans that may be used to finance the …. Moreover, the advising bank's recommendations may be distorted by considerations related to credit exposure incurred in both …