2011
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbankfin.2011.03.002
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Government, taxes and banking crises

Abstract: a b s t r a c tThis paper analyzes the effectiveness of different government policies to prevent the emergence of bank ing crises. In particular, we study the impact on welfare of using taxpayers money to recapitalize banks, government injection of money into the banking system through credit lines, the creation of a buffer and taxes on financial transactions (the Tobin tax). We illustrate the trade off between these policies and derive policy implications.

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“…In the presence of binding capital regulation, adequate capitalisation is also a necessary condition for lending. Moreover, recapitalisations can be more effective than other forms of rescue in many circumstances (Philippon and Schnabl (2009), and Hasman et al (2011). And, empirically, the institution-specific nature of recapitalisations helps identify their effectiveness in a crosssectional analysis, in contrast to generalised deposit insurance and debt guarantee programmes available to all banks in a given jurisdiction (which are controlled for by country dummies below).…”
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“…In the presence of binding capital regulation, adequate capitalisation is also a necessary condition for lending. Moreover, recapitalisations can be more effective than other forms of rescue in many circumstances (Philippon and Schnabl (2009), and Hasman et al (2011). And, empirically, the institution-specific nature of recapitalisations helps identify their effectiveness in a crosssectional analysis, in contrast to generalised deposit insurance and debt guarantee programmes available to all banks in a given jurisdiction (which are controlled for by country dummies below).…”
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“…For example, [20] have analyzed the effectiveness of different government policies to prevent the emergence of banking crises. They have studied the impact on welfare of using tax-payers money to recapitalize banks, government injection of money into the banking system through credit lines, the creation of a buffer and taxes on financial transactions (the Tobin tax).…”
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confidence: 99%
“…However, there is a dynamic inconsistency in the preferences of the government: while at T=1 it is in the interest of the government to promise full deposit guarantee in order to stop bank runs, in a crisis the welfare-maximizing way to spend government wealth might not consist of transferring it to the depositors of failed banks. In order to state this idea more rigorously, we introduce -similarly with Hasman et al (2011) and Keister (2012) -two uses for government wealth, transfers to consumers and the production of public goods. We assume that if there was no deposit guarantee, and if the depositors were left penniless after bank failures, the welfare-maximizing way to divide government wealth between public goods and transfers to depositors would not consist of paying out the total value of the deposits.…”
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confidence: 99%