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Banks without Parachutes - Competitive Effects of Government Bail-out Policies

Lecture on the first SFB/TR 15 meeting, Gummersbach, July, 18 - 20, 2004: The explicit or implicit protection of banks through government bail-out policies is a universal phenomenon. We analyze the competitive effects of such policies in two models with different degrees of transparency in the banking sector. Our main result is that the bail-out policy unambiguously leads to higher risk-taking at those banks that do not enjoy a bail-out guarantee. The reason is that the prospect of a bail-out induces the rotected bank to expand, thereby intensifying competition in the deposit market and depressing other banks' margins. In contrast, the effects on the protected bank's risk taking and on welfare depend on the transparency of the banking sector.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: SFB/TR 15 Discussion Paper ; No. 8

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Banks; Depository Institutions; Micro Finance Institutions; Mortgages
Financial Institutions and Services: Government Policy and Regulation
Production, Pricing, and Market Structure; Size Distribution of Firms
Thema
Government bail-out
banking competition
transparency
opacity
'too big to fail'
financial stability

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Hakenes, Hendrik
Schnabel, Isabel
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Sonderforschungsbereich/Transregio 15 - Governance and the Efficiency of Economic Systems (GESY)
(wo)
München
(wann)
2004

DOI
doi:10.5282/ubm/epub.13538
Handle
URN
urn:nbn:de:bvb:19-epub-13538-7
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:41 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Hakenes, Hendrik
  • Schnabel, Isabel
  • Sonderforschungsbereich/Transregio 15 - Governance and the Efficiency of Economic Systems (GESY)

Entstanden

  • 2004

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