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This paper reviews the market reaction to bank rescue packages announced in six countries between October 2008 and … shareholders as seen in the movement of bank stock prices. Government interventions benefited creditors at the expense of … shareholders, with bank CDS spreads narrowing around the announcements in all cases. Despite a brief positive reaction, bank stock …
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results enhanced price discrimination as the impact on bank CDS spreads and equity prices tended to be stronger for the weaker …
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While the unfolding financial turmoil has involved new elements, more fundamental elements have remained the same. New elements include structured credit, the originate-to-distribute business model and the tri-party repurchase agreement. The recurrence of crises reflects a basic procyclicality...
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Lack of transparency in securitization transactions significantly contributed to the severe financial crisis of 20072009. To increase transparency we propose a new mechanism: financial claims with fingerprints. They would allow market participants at each stage of the securitization process to...
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.S. government's crisis actions as well as two international bank bailouts in a series of event studies employing both debt and …
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This paper explores the impacts of key policy actions by US and European authorities on stock returns of systemically important banks in Europe and US around the subprime crisis. We find that the US policy announcements had a stronger impact on the European and US banking industry than the...
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and distortions. Finally, we briefly review the recent evolution of bank lending to the private sector. We draw policy …
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This paper attempts to investigate the impact of credit information sharing on bank-specific stock price crash risk …
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Many observers have argued that credit default swaps contributed significantly to the credit crisis. Of particular concern to these observers are that credit default swaps trade in the largely unregulated over-the-counter market as bilateral contracts involving counter-party risk and that they...
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We discuss the literature on the shift from stakeholder to shareholder finance behind the Great Financial Crisis (GFC). Traditional banks generally maximized stakeholder value (STV). But before the GFC also many of them started maximizing shareholder value (SHV). Moving from STV to SHV often...
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