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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"bailouts"”.
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On Bank Bailouts
… cost of failure to commit in the provision of bailouts to financial institutions. When a financial institution fails, the fiscal authority often deviates from its ex-ante no-bailout commitment: the ex-post best response is to bailout. The fiscal authority’s time inconsistency creates moral …
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Government Bailouts : from the perspective of the Austrian School
… of this essay is the effects of government bailouts on economic prosperity from the perspective of the heterodox Austrian School of economics. Proponents of the school see economics as the science of the logical implications which can be inferred from the ultimate given of human action. They …
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Essays on repurchase agreements, bailouts, and the macroeconomics effects of bank failures
… events during the financial crisis, I show that bailouts are part of an efficient social insurance scheme in the event that a run emerges. However, this result does not imply that optimal intervention completely isolates shadow-banking intermediaries from a crisis. In fact, optimal public sector …
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Turning around investment banks during the financial crisis : surviving apart from government bailouts
The principal topic of this paper addresses optimal turnaround strategies that businesses employ to reengineer value during times of financial distress. The scope of the paper focuses on investment banks during the financial crisis, which, according to the National Bureau of Economic Research, …
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The great American debate: A constructionist approach on the media's coverage of government bailouts
… is voluntary. However, by all accounts, the bailouts in the past nine months have not been voluntary. Media outlets are using the words 'bailout' and 'rescue' interchangeably. Through claims-making and by using the words rescue and bailout interchangeably, the media has socially constructed …
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Financial Crisis in the European Union: The Cases of Greece and Ireland
… in Greece and Ireland in terms of the EU/IMF bailouts, the austerity measures each state took in response to the crisis, and the resulting national political changes. I found that neither Greek nor Irish citizens were unequivocally growing skeptical of their membership in the single currency. …
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The municipal bond valuation puzzle : evidence from U.S. States
… a number of factors: (i) expectations of federal bailouts and transfers during recessionary periods; (ii) balanced-budget amendments (BBAs) and statutory debt limits that constrain countercyclical fiscal spending; and (iii) mismeasurement of surpluses due to the omission of state-contingent …
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An Empirical Analysis of The Effect of the Corporate Governance Framework on UK Banks' Performance: 2007-2021
… are therefore less likely to require taxpayer bailouts. We commenced with a systematic literature review (SLR), emulating a four-stage SLR approach proposed by Denyer and Tranfield (2008) and adopted by Deku et al (2019). We developed our dataset and sample by first considering a list of 130 …
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Local debts, international authority : rating agencies' emergence in regulating subnational debt
… SND's long legacy of debt defaults, federal bailouts, and improperly priced risk; as well as the profound benefits that SND can provide to local governments, particularly as a means of resisting the siren song of privatization. Unfortunately, it finds that conventional strategies for …
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Germany, the European Union, and the Euro: the primacy of politics in treasure
… crisis and the substantial sovereign economic bailouts and recovery packages that have been enacted by the Troika are analyzed. The thesis then examines the three options that are available to the Eurozone: to continue to muddle through the crisis, to enact substantial reforms, or to splinter …
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Essays In Macroeconomics
… had access to two policy instruments: a) offer bailouts to banks, and b) subsidize the mortgage refinancing of households. The implementation of these instruments involves a trade-off, shaped by a dead-weight loss caused by foreclosures and an information friction on house prices. The main …
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An investigation into the relationship between a firm's working capital management and its profitability: A case study of the Namibian state-owned commercial institutions
… SOEs have incessantly depended on Government bailouts. While a number of scholars have concentrated their research on understanding the relationship between working capital management (WCM) and an organisation’s profitability, the Namibian SOE context has not been empirically studied with …
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Essays on European Banks' Consolidation, Integration and Systemic Risk
… asset quality, capital ratio, short-term debt, bailouts, deposit insurers’ power and private monitoring index are the main determinants of acquirers’ systemic risk of bank M&As in Europe. Fourth, we also find some evidences that those variables have significantly different effects on acquirers’ …
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Towards a Political Economy of Corporate Governance: A Critical Realist Analysis
… following recent financial crisis and subsequent bailouts of banks and other financial institutions. Despite this surge in CG research, the extant CG literature is reportedly weak in terms of empirical illustrations of CG practices at the organizational level. It tends to be concerned more with …
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The political economy of government interventions in financial crises
… the contribution of the local authority to bank bailouts as well as the size of the bailout fund. I derive conditions under which it is optimal for the local authority to be given full autonomy over bailout policies. The model shows that these conditions become more restrictive if the local …
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Banking regulation and supervision in Nigeria : an analysis of the effects of banking reforms on bank performance and financial stability
… in the form of capital requirement increase or bailouts do not guarantee sustained efficiency and stability. To that end, this study recommended increased surveillance of DMBs and adoption of qualitative and statistical assessments of bank performance.
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An investigation into recent developments in employee incentive schemes used by companies listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange
… by a multitude of very costly high profile bailouts, has led to significant shareholder and tax payer dissatisfaction, and has succeeded to highlight the inherent deficiencies of traditional share-based incentive schemes such as stock options. Increased scrutiny and calls for better …
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Implosion in Greece? An analysis of the Greek debt crisis and its impacts on Europe and world markets
… of the benefits some austerity measures and bailouts will have for Greece. As of this publication, Greece has partially defaulted. In March 2012, following a second EU/IMF bailout and austerity measures, private sector holders of Greek debt agreed to a debt-swap, with write off losses of …
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An assessment of the impact of Private equity funding on agricultural development in Namibia
… institutions such as Agribank that usually give bailouts and subsidies to farmers in various areas to increase production of certain products that the government can then facilitate to import. Moreover, farmers get funding through loans from commercial banks which at have also been seen to at …
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Original powers of state-owned companies' boards in South Africa
… perpetual dependency on the government for bailouts. Major SOCs have had a pattern of mismanagement and poor governance. One of the root causes of SOCs' governance collapse is the inappropriate intervention by state shareholder representatives in the SOCs' affairs. Although S 66(1) of the …
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