significantly influencing the risk-taking attitudes of bank managers. Particularly, we intend to substantiate the theory that banks … banking sectors due to a missing ability to monitor bank managers. Our results underline that these problems appear to mislead … bank managers showing an unreasonable risk-taking behavior. In a first stage, we rely on a theoretical model explaining …

This paper studies the country-level reaction of bank credit default swap (“CDS”) spreads and stock prices to bailout … announcements in the US and five European countries in October 2008. Bailouts announcements are associated with bank CDS spreads … narrowing, both for domestic and foreign banks, pointing to an important role for cross-border exposures. Movements in bank …

-out unit, a so-called bad bank. The key element of the plan is the valuation of troubled assets at their current market value … recapitalize the good bank by taking an equity stake in it. In extreme cases, this would mean a takeover of the bank by the …. A clear emphasis that the government stake is temporary would also be necessary. The government would cover the bad bank …

-out unit, a so-called bad bank. The key element of the plan is the valuation of troubled assets at their current market value … recapitalize the good bank by taking an equity stake in it. In extreme cases, this would mean a takeover of the bank by the …. A clear emphasis that the government stake is temporary would also be necessary. The government would cover the bad bank …

work out units, a so-called bad bank. The key element of the plan is the valuation of troubled assets at their current … own cost and recapitalize the good bank by taking an equity stake in it. In extreme cases, this would mean a takeover of … the bank by the government. The risk to taxpayers from this investment would be acceptable, however, once the banks are …

-out unit, a so-called bad bank. The key element of the plan is the valuation of troubled assets at their current market value … recapitalize the good bank by taking an equity stake in it. In extreme cases, this would mean a takeover of the bank by the …. A clear emphasis that the government stake is temporary would also be necessary. The government would cover the bad bank …

We investigate three prominent German bank failures in the financial crisis of 2007-2008, IKB Deutsche Industriebank …