We study the recent episode of bank failures and provide simple facts to better understand who acquires failed banks and which forces drive the losses that the FDIC realizes from these sales. We document three distinct forces related to the allocation of failed banks to potential acquirers....

We show that the allocation of failed banks in the Great Recession was likely distorted because potential acquirers of these banks were poorly capitalized. We illustrate this phenomenon within a model of auctions with budget constraints. In our model poor capitalization of some potential...

Chapter 1. Interest Burden and Debt Sustainability, by Zhang Xiaojing et al -- Chapter 2. The Sophistication of China’s Financial System, by Fan Lijun & Yin Jianfeng -- Chapter 3 Corporate Leveraging from the Perspective of Return on Assets--Two-Level Deviations of Macro and Micro Leverage...