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 …

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 …

postponing default; 2) a positive probability of bail-out destroys credibility with dramatic effects on financial risk-taking, to …

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 …