Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/49094 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
DICE Discussion Paper No. 31
Publisher: 
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE), Düsseldorf
Abstract: 
This paper develops a model to analyze two different bad bank schemes, an outright sale of toxic assets to a state-owned bad bank and a repurchase agreement between the bad bank and the initial bank. For both schemes, we derive a critical transfer payment that induces a bank manager to participate. Participation improves the bank's solvency and enables the bank to grant new loans. Therefore, both schemes can reestablish stability and avoid a credit crunch. However, an outright sale will be less costly to taxpayers than a repurchase agreement only if the transfer payment is sufficiently low.
Subjects: 
bad banks
financial crisis
financial stability
credit crunch
JEL: 
G21
G28
G30
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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