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We show that market discipline, defined as the extent to which firm specific risk characteristics are re ected in market prices, eroded during the recent financial crisis in 2008. We design a novel test of changes in market discipline based on the relation between firm specific risk...
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sovereign default -- a de facto bailout. Consistent with this, the likelihood a defaulting sovereign is granted an IMF loan is …
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The financial crisis renewed the debate on the bailout of financial institutions, questioning the effectiveness of such …
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postponing default; 2) a positive probability of bail-out destroys credibility with dramatic effects on financial risk-taking, to …
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In the aftermath of the financial crisis, governments are rightly reducing their exposure to the banking system. Bail-in arrangements should ensure that shareholders and creditors take the first losses. The next line of defence is a resolution fund, which is filled via levies on banks....
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likelihood of a bank bailout or failure during the late 2000s financial crisis. The empirical results indicate that established … received bailout funds are similar except that holding a large proportion of nonperforming loans reduced the likelihood that a … bank received bailout funds. Overall, these results are consistent with regulators providing bailout funds to banks that …
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in the form of the Bank Recovery and Resolution Directive. The paper discusses the anti-bailout objective of the two …
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We propose a new form of hybrid capital for banks, Equity Recourse Notes (ERNs), which (1) ameliorate booms and busts by creating counter-cyclical incentives for banks to raise capital, and so encourage bank lending in bad times; (2) help solve the too-big-to-fail problem; and (3) reduce the...
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equity ratio, loan quality and bank size are the main determinants of bank bailout involvement. However, the aided banks …
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We examine whether connected hedge funds (i.e. those that are prime-brokerage clients of bailout banks) benefited from … bailout programs initiated in seven countries during the 2007–2009 financial crisis. We find that being connected to a bailout … smaller during the post bailout period, for example, due to the greater risk-taking and higher leverage of such funds …
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