Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/32209 
Year of Publication: 
2010
Series/Report no.: 
Preprints of the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods No. 2010,05
Publisher: 
Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, Bonn
Abstract: 
This paper empirically investigates the effect of government bail-out policies on banks outside the safety net. We construct a measure of bail-out perceptions by using rating information. From there, we construct the market shares of insured competitor banks for any given bank, and analyze the impact of this variable on banks' risk-taking behavior, using a large sample of banks from OECD countries. Our results suggest that government guarantees strongly increase the risk-taking of competitor banks. In contrast, there is no evidence that public guarantees increase the protected banks' risk-taking, except for banks that have outright public ownership. These results have important implications for the effects of the recent wave of bank bail-outs on banks' risk-taking behavior.
Subjects: 
Government bail-out
implicit and explicit government guarantees
banking competition
risk-taking
JEL: 
G21
G28
L53
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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