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resources to augment the private consumption of those investors facing losses. The anticipation of such a “bailout” distorts ex …
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transfers that partially cover intermediaries' losses. The anticipation of this bailout distorts ex ante incentives, leading …
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resources to augment the private consumption of those investors facing losses. The anticipation of such a "bailout" distorts ex …
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This paper analyzes the effects of government bailouts in a modified Diamond-Dybvig model. Following Keister (2010), my model includes both a private good and a public good. Bailouts are assumed to crowd out pub- lic good provision and improve the ex-post allocation of resources during a bank...
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We show that market discipline, defined as the extent to which firm specific risk characteristics are re ected in market prices, eroded during the recent financial crisis in 2008. We design a novel test of changes in market discipline based on the relation between firm specific risk...
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We examine whether connected hedge funds (i.e. those that are prime-brokerage clients of bailout banks) benefited from … bailout programs initiated in seven countries during the 2007–2009 financial crisis. We find that being connected to a bailout … smaller during the post bailout period, for example, due to the greater risk-taking and higher leverage of such funds …
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likelihood of a bank bailout or failure during the late 2000s financial crisis. The empirical results indicate that established … received bailout funds are similar except that holding a large proportion of nonperforming loans reduced the likelihood that a … bank received bailout funds. Overall, these results are consistent with regulators providing bailout funds to banks that …
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equity ratio, loan quality and bank size are the main determinants of bank bailout involvement. However, the aided banks …
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the resulting drop in bank charter values translated into higher risk-taking at German savings banks. -- Public bail-out …
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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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