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separated from control. Yet through the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) bailout and the government's resultant shareholding … sectors in chaos. The government's $700 billion bailout is a unique historical event; not merely because of its size, but also … before Congress during the financial crisis and implementation of the TARP bailout and his consultation for the Special …
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liquidity provided by the government bailout reduced the cost of equity for recipient banks, especially for those banks that … repaid their bailout funds in full. The decrease in the cost of equity is particularly significant for banks with high market … important implications for the assessment of government bailout programs and future regulation of financial institutions …
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A wide range of approaches has been applied to address banking and other financial crises. The nature of the approach depends on the nature of the crisis, its origins, evolution and context. Systemic banking crises are among the most common and costly to address. The experiences of the three...
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This paper investigates the real and financial effects of the largest government intervention in US history, the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), on individual firms. Firms borrowing from banks that participate in TARP increase long-term debt and have more cash holdings and working capital...
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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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This report identifies a set of policy lessons for China today drawn from the experience of financial deregulation, financial crisis and recovery in Scandinavia during the period 1985-2000. Although there are considerable differences between the huge Chinese economy and the small Nordic...
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Regulators of financial institutions in most parts of the globe are making impressive achievement in terms of regulating the behavior of banks on the level of risk they can take in making investment decisions. Professionals in the finance industry have made a huge impact in trying to regulate...
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This paper argues that creditors reflect the financial-safety-net aspect of bank lobbying, plausibly considering the connection between bank lobbying and government bailouts. Using a structural approach, I show that bank lobbying is negatively associated with the occurrence of a run-like...
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