Too big to fail : policies and practices in government bailouts

Too big to fail : policies and practices in government bailouts / edited by Benton E. Gup.

Usually associated with large bank failures, the phrase too big to fail, which is a particular form of government bailout, actually applies to a wide range of industries, as this volume makes clear. Examples range from Chrysler to Lockheed Aircraft and from New York City to Penn Central Railroad. Ge...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Financial Management Association International. Meeting
Other Authors: Gup, Benton E.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2004.
Subjects:
Business failures.
Business failures > United States.
Bank failures.
Bank failures > United States.
Intervention (Federal government)
Bankruptcy.
Corporate reorganizations.
Corporate turnarounds.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Corporate & Business History.
Bank failures
Bankruptcy
Business failures
Corporate reorganizations
Corporate turnarounds
United States
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Table of Contents:
  • Some historical perspectives on "too big to fail" policies / Charles G. Leathers and J. Patrick Raines
  • What does too big to fail mean? / Benton E. Gup
  • Too big to fail, government bailouts, and managerial incentives : the case of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation assistance to the railroad industry during the Great Depression / Joseph R. Mason and Daniel A. Schiffman
  • Does financial liberalization increase the likelihood of a systemic banking crisis? : evidence from the past three decades and the Great Depression / Arthur E. Wilmarth, Jr.
  • Federal Home Loan Bank System and the Farm Credit System : historical parallels and implications for systemic risk / David Nickerson and Ronnie J. Phillips
  • Too big to fail in the banking industry : a survey / Marcello Dabós
  • Too big to fail in U.S. banking : quo vadis? / George G. Kaufman
  • Fall and rise of banking safety net subsidies / Joe Peek and James A. Wilcox
  • Too big to fail : the Australian perspective / Chris Terry and Rowan Trayler
  • Too big to fail : a taxonomic analysis / Steven A. Seelig
  • Avoiding a permanent banking crisis : the Hungarian banking sector in the 1990s / Júlia Király and Éva Várhegyi
  • Banking in Japan : will too big to fail prevail? / Adrian van Rixtel [and others]
  • Are Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac too big to fail? ; Enron : not too big to fail / Benton E. Gup.

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