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Saving the Banks: The Political Economy of Bailouts

  • How much leeway did governments have in designing bank bailouts and deciding on the height of intervention during the 2007-2009 financial crisis? By analyzing the variety of bailouts in Europe and North America, we will show that the strategies governments use to cope with the instability of financial markets does not depend on economic conditions alone. Rather, they take root in the institutional and political setting of each country and vary in particular according to the different types of business–government relations banks were able to entertain with public decision makers. Still, “crony capitalism” accounts overstate the role of bank lobbying. With four case studies of the Irish, Danish, British, and French bank bailout, we show that countries with close one-on-one relationships between policy makers and bank management tended to develop unbalanced bailout packages, while countries where banks negotiated collectively developed solutions with a greater burden-sharing from private institutions.

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Document Type:Article
Language:English
Author(s):Grossman Emiliano, Cornelia Woll
Parent Title (English):Comparative Political Studies
Publication year:2013
Publishing Institution:Hertie School
First Page:574
Last Page:600
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1177/0010414013488540
Release Date:2022/03/14
Volume:47
Issue:4
Licence of document (German):Metadaten / metadata
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