Bank Bailouts: Moral Hazard vs. Value Effect

Author/Editor:

Eduardo Levy Yeyati ; Tito Cordella

Publication Date:

August 1, 1999

Electronic Access:

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Summary:

This paper shows that a central bank, by announcing and committing ex-ante to a bailout policy that is contingent on the realization of certain states of nature (for example on the occurrence of an adverse macroeconomic shock), creates a risk-reducing “value effect” that more than outweighs the moral hazard component of such a policy.

Series:

Working Paper No. 1999/106

Subject:

English

Publication Date:

August 1, 1999

ISBN/ISSN:

9781451852875/1018-5941

Stock No:

WPIEA1061999

Pages:

30

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