have contributed to the observed decline in US entrepreneurship. Using a unique panel dataset of US households and a …

institutional set-up are reflected in the way the two areas responded to the crisis. The U.S. response was a coordinated response …) could market failed banks to other banks irrespective of state boundaries, reducing the cost of the crisis to the U ….S. economy and the sovereign finances. In the EU, the crisis resulted in financial market fragmentation and unbearable costs to …

impact of a crisis on investor confidence is complicated by the fact that it is difficult to disentangle the effect of … investor confidence from coincident direct effects of the crisis. In order to isolate the effects of financial crises on … crises have important effects on investor behavior. Immigrants who have experienced a banking crisis in their countries of …

The current financial crisis has sparked intense debate about how weak banks should be resolved. Despite international … practiceʺ. But some of these lessons have proved hard to implement during the current crisis, and new policies have been … resolution methods in the US, UK and NZ. -- crisis resolution ; banks ; special resolution regime …

We investigate whether bank performance during the recent credit crisis is related to chief executive officer (CEO …) incentives before the crisis. We find some evidence that banks with CEOs whose incentives were better aligned with the interests … larger fraction of compensation in cash bonuses for their CEOs did not perform worse during the crisis. Bank CEOs did not …

Although the United States and the European Union were both seriously impacted by the financial crisis of 2007, the …