maintained and even expanded. The administration's goal was to block its own appointee Federal Home Loan Bank Board Chairman …

This paper tests whether poorly capitalized banks with troubled loan books are more likely to miss their bailout … non-cumulative preferred stock are also more likely to be TARP deadbeats. In addition, banks that missed a bailout … dividend in the prior quarter are significantly more likely to miss the next bailout dividend …

to use most efficiently funds of new bank taxes. Method: By modeling the financial system with its interactions as …-bail-outs.' Compared to the current best practice of bank bail-outs, soft-bail-outs tend to reduce the probability of default of the whole … financial system, lower the bail-out costs, and decrease the bail-out cost volatility. Application: This new concept of soft …