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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788220703321

Autore

Detragiache Enrica

Titolo

Responding to Banking Crises : : Lessons From Cross-Country Evidence / / Enrica Detragiache, Giang Ho

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2010

ISBN

1-4623-0025-1

1-4519-6223-1

1-282-84527-6

1-4527-0868-1

9786612845277

Descrizione fisica

31 p

Collana

IMF Working Papers

Altri autori (Persone)

HoGiang

Soggetti

Financial crises

Banks and banking

Banks and Banking

Financial Risk Management

Public Finance

Financial Markets and the Macroeconomy

Central Banks and Their Policies

Banks

Depository Institutions

Micro Finance Institutions

Mortgages

Financial Institutions and Services: Government Policy and Regulation

Financial Crises

Crisis Management

Fiscal Policy

Economic & financial crises & disasters

Banking

Macroeconomics

Banking crises

Crisis resolution

Crisis management

Fiscal policy

Argentina



Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Sommario/riassunto

A common legacy of banking crises is a large increase in government debt, as fiscal resources are used to shore up the banking system. Do crisis response strategies that commit more fiscal resources lower the economic costs of crises? Based on evidence from a sample of 40 banking crises we find that the answer is negative. In fact, policies that are riskier for the government budget are associated with worse, not better, post-crisis performance. We also show that parliamentary political systems are more prone to adopt bank rescue measures that are costly for the government budget. We take advantage of this relationship to instrument the policy response, thereby addressing concerns of joint endogeneity. We find no evidence that endogeneity is a source of bias.