We analyze the effectiveness of government policies aimed at shoring up banks' financial conditions during the 2008-2009 financial crisis. Governments injected into troubled institutions massive amounts of fresh capital and/or guaranteed bank assets and liabilities. We employ event study...

This paper examines the impact of Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) announcements, which include information about target Federal fund rate and the revision to the future path of monetary policy, on Southeast Asian stock markets performance. It compares these effects in two periods, 1997...