of bail-outs. Raising public funds to conduct a bail-out entails the deadweight loss of distortionary taxation. Bank bail …

sovereign default -- a de facto bailout. Consistent with this, the likelihood a defaulting sovereign is granted an IMF loan is …

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 …

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 …

equity ratio, loan quality and bank size are the main determinants of bank bailout involvement. However, the aided banks …

The actual economic and financial turmoil calls for new bailout policies to enable the governments to rescue the … bailout policies; the Capital Purchase Program (CPP) and the Supervisory Capital Assessment Program (SCAP) have different key …

those investors facing losses. The anticipation of such a "bailout" distorts ex ante incentives, leading intermediaries to …