This paper investigates the long-run recovery experience of U.S. banks that received capital infusions under the Capital Purchase Program (CPP), a part of the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP). Based on a dynamic recovery model, our results show that recovering CPP banks tended to be in...

This essay describes and analyses the causes, responses and the effects of the 1890 Baring Bank crisis. It also juxtaposes the Baring Bank's crisis of 1890 with the 2008 Lehman Brothers' Bank crisis.Methodology: Qualitative methodology and some empirical evidence recorded in black letter sources

We study investors' reaction to dividend decreases and omissions in the US banking industry during the Great Recession of 2007 and 2008 and compare it to the reaction in the years before and after the crisis. Conducting standard event study approach, we find that investors didn't react...

During normal times, strengthening the financial stability of banks is associated with contradictory effects on returns. In this paper, we establish that liquidity and capital ratios had a positive impact on bank returns during the first three years following the global financial crisis. Our...