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This paper examines the impact of government bailouts on bank CEOs' careers. Exploiting the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) of 2008, we find that CEOs of banks that received TARP funds temporarily remained in their positions in the years 2008-2010. However, after this period, they were more...
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market response to the TARP launch. We reject the null hypothesis that the bailout size has no effect on the firm's value … average buy-and-hold return from 2008 Q4 to 2009 Q1 is 42.68% for the 293 sampled banks. Bailout banks perform 5.8% worse than … non-bailout banks. The banks' losses increase significantly from the pre-TARP period to TARP initiation period, suggesting …
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The recent crisis has shown that systemically relevant banks in distress are likely to benefit from governmental support. This reduces their downside risk and leads to moral hazard, i.e. to incentives for these banks to assume excessive risks. In this paper we show empirically that implicit...
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In September 2008, the government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were placed into conservatorship and dividend payments on common and preferred shares were suspended. As a result, share prices fell to nearly zero and many banks across the country lost the value of their...
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In this paper, we analyze how sources of political influence relate to the actual regulatory treatment of distressed banks and to the expectation of bank support provided by the government. We assemble a unique dataset that links U.S. banks' sources of influence (e.g., lobbying expenditures,...
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. Political indicators reveal bailout expectations after 2009, manifested as beliefs about the predicted probability of receiving … was lower, and loan rates were higher for banks with higher bailout expectations. The interest margins of unsupported …
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-equations model that specifies the probability of a bailout and banks' risk taking.We identify the effect of expected bailout …-2006. The marginal effect of risk with respect to bailout expectations is 7.2 basis points. A change of bailout expectations by …
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The financial crisis renewed the debate on the bailout of financial institutions, questioning the effectiveness of such …
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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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We empirically evaluate the impact of the new resolution policy, the so-called Bank Recovery and Resolution Directive (BRRD) enacted in 2016, on the cost of funding for EU banks. We first measure the change in the spreads of credit default swaps on subordinated and senior bonds issued by EU...
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