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Corporate distress and lobbying: Evidence from the Stimulus Act
Adelino, Manuel; Dinc, I. Serdar - In: Journal of Financial Economics 114 (2014) 2, pp. 256-272
paper investigates a novel aspect of firm behavior in distress: how financial health affects a firm׳s lobbying and … the availability of the stimulus package in the first quarter of 2009. We find that firms with weaker financial health, as … measured by credit default swap spreads, lobbied more. We also show that the amount spent on lobbying was associated with a …
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The Political Economy of the U.S. Mortgage Default Crisis
Mian, Atif - 2008
We examine the determinants of congressional voting behavior on two of the most significant pieces of federal legislation in U.S. economic history: the American Housing Rescue and Foreclosure Prevention Act of 2008 and the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008. We find evidence that...
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How important is moral hazard for distressed banks?
Ben-David, Itzhak; Palvia, Ajay; Stulz, René M. - 2020
The moral hazard incentives of the bank safety net predict that distressed banks take on more risk and higher leverage. Since many factors reduce these incentives, including charter value, regulation, and managerial incentives, the net economic effect of these incentives is an empirical...
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Determinants of distress in the UK owner-occupier and buy-to-let mortgage markets
Lazarov, Vladimir; Hinterschweiger, Marc - 2018
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The real costs of industry contagion
Garcia-Appendini, Emilia - 2014 - This draft: June 2014
This paper analyzes whether the financial distress of a firm affects the investment decisions of non …-distressed competitors. On average, firms in distress impose indirect costs to non-distressed competitors by increasing costs of credit in …
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Tracing the source of liquidity for distressed housing markets
Ganduri, Rohan; Xiao, Steven Chong; Xiao, Serena Wenjing - In: Real estate economics 51 (2023) 2, pp. 408-440
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The political economy of finance and regulatory capture : evidence from the US Congress
Silano, Filippo - 2023
Congress roll call votes on financial liberalisation were biased by industry-led campaign contributions and lobbying activities …
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Bank lobbying : regulatory capture and beyond
Igan, Deniz; Lambert, Thomas - 2019
In this paper, we discuss whether and how bank lobbying can lead to regulatory capture and have real consequences … through an overview of the motivations behind bank lobbying and of recent empirical evidence on the subject. Overall, the … interpreted as a call for an outright ban of lobbying, they point in the direction of a need for rethinking the framework …
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The interest ecology of financial regulation : interest group plurality in the design of financial regulatory policies
Pagliari, Stefano; Young, Kevin - In: Socio-economic review 14 (2016) 2, pp. 309-337
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Studies on issues in political economy since the Global Financial Crisis
Jäger, Kai - 2016
Die Dissertation behandelt in vier Kapiteln Themen zu den Ursprüngen und Auswirkungen der globalen Finanzkrise 2007 …-8. Nach der Einleitung untersucht Kapitel 2, warum autoritäre Regime im Vergleich zu Demokratien vor und nach der Finanzkrise …
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