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Drawing broadly on the literature on the political economy of the financial crisis, the paper looks at deregulation as … opportunistic profit (rent) seeking was more the cause rather than the effect of moral hazard and regulation failure. Deregulation … deregulation promised in turn incentivized financial firms to invest in tilting the political process to shape government policy …
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We model the effect of government bailouts on portfolio choices and welfare. Banks sell bonds to leverage investment in risky projects and households buy bonds under rational expectations about default risk. Bailouts induce greater leverage but reduce equilibrium interest rates. The interest...
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