market response to the TARP launch. We reject the null hypothesis that the bailout size has no effect on the firm's value … average buy-and-hold return from 2008 Q4 to 2009 Q1 is 42.68% for the 293 sampled banks. Bailout banks perform 5.8% worse than … non-bailout banks. The banks' losses increase significantly from the pre-TARP period to TARP initiation period, suggesting …

authorized the bailout funds to keep AIG, and the entire U.S. financial sector, afloat. The government agreed to loan AIG the …In March 2009, ailing insurance giant American International Group (AIG) triggered a national outcry when it paid out … $165 million in government bailout funds for employee bonus incentives. President Obama called the bonus payments an …