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The political economy of finance and regulatory capture : evidence from the US Congress
Silano, Filippo - 2023
Congress roll call votes on financial liberalisation were biased by industry-led campaign contributions and lobbying activities …
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Regulation-induced distortions
Needy, Charles W. - 1975
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Political connections and the informativeness of insider trades
Jagolinzer, Alan D.; Larcker, David F.; Ormazabal, Gaizka; … - 2016
We analyze the trading of corporate insiders at leading financial institutions during the 2007 to 2009 financial crisis. We find strong evidence of a relation between political connections and informed trading during the period in which TARP funds were disbursed, and that the relation is most...
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Knowledge capture in financial regulation : data-, information- and knowledge-asymmetries in the US financial crisis
Becker, Eva - 2016
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Winning connections? : special interests and the sale of failed banks
Igan, Deniz; Lambert, Thomas; Wagner, Wolf; Zhang, Quxian - 2017
We study how lobbying affects the resolution of failed banks, using a sample of FDIC auctions between 2007 and 2014. We … higher costs in such auctions, amounting to 16.4 percent of the total resolution losses. We also find that lobbying winners … have worse operating and stock market performance than their non-lobbying counterparts, suggesting that lobbying results in …
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Winning connections? : special interests and the sale of failed banks
Igan, Deniz; Lambert, Thomas; Wagner, Wolf; Zhang, Quxian - 2017
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The impact of political connections on government bailout : the 2008 credit crunch in the United States
Lee, Seung-Hyun; Ozer, Mine; Baik, Yoon-Suk - In: Economics of governance 19 (2018) 4, pp. 299-315
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A fistful of dollars : lobbying and the financial crisis
Igan, Deniz; Mishra, Prachi; Tressel, Thierry - 2009
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Age of greed : the triumph of finance and the decline of America, 1970 to the present
Madrick, Jeffrey G. - 2011
As Jeff Madrick makes clear, the single-minded pursuit of huge personal wealth has been on the rise in the United States since the 1970s, led by a few individuals who argue that self-interest guides society more effectively than community concerns. In telling the stories of these politicians,...
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