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Bank bailouts are not the "one-shot" events commonly described in the literature. These bailouts are instead dynamic processes in which regulators "catch" financially distressed banks; "restrict" their activities over time; and "release" the banks from restrictions at sufficiently healthy capital...
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bailout policies may benefit social welfare in the long-run. Bailouts improve capital allocation in states where aggregate …
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bailout, the bailout value incurred by the government following the abandonment of the private shareholders, and, moreover … particular on assessing the difference that an assumed bail-in as opposed to bail-out regime can make. …
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The recent crisis has shown that systemically relevant banks in distress are likely to benefit from governmental support. This reduces their downside risk and leads to moral hazard, i.e. to incentives for these banks to assume excessive risks. In this paper we show empirically that implicit...
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default { bailout, where government provides capital; bail-in, using private-sector funds; and no regulatory intervention … distress with sufficient capital remaining. Empirical tests of changes in capital behavior from the pre-crisis bailout period …
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Past papers show that public bailouts increase the moral hazard of rescued banks. What happens to other banks in the banking sector? Using a hand-collected dataset of European banks from 2007 to 2017 and adopting a dynamic difference-in-differences approach, we document that public bailouts...
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We study the stability of the banking system after a mortgage shock when a discretionary bailout policy is applied … the alternatives for most shock/bailout pairs. The medium-sized banks policy performs the worst and may be feasible only … for a small number of low shock/low bailout probability pairs. We identify a threshold level after which the bailout costs …
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If a bank is facing insolvency, it will be tempted to reject good loans and accept bad loans so as to shift risk onto its creditors. We analyze the effectiveness of buying up toxic mortgages in troubled banks, buying preferred stock, and buying common stock. If bailing out banks deemed “too...
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House financing has played a prominent role in advanced economies. In addition, most of the banking crises in advanced economies were associated with boom-bust cycles in house prices. Prominent researchers suggest that more grants for household debt reduction would have provided a significant...
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