TARP and the Restoration of U.S. Financial Stability
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 17,11 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Economic stabilization
ISBN : 9781621005087
TARP and the Restoration of U.S. Financial Stability
Author : Martin Y. Perkins
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 15,38 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Economic stabilization
ISBN : 9781607413592
Book Description
The current financial instability became widely apparent in the credit markets in August 2007. Although initially thought to be limited to sub-prime mortgages, increasing defaults on prime mortgages caused losses that rippled through the financial system. The effects have been particularly severe because U.S. mortgage-backed securities (MBS) had previously been viewed as low risk investments. Beginning in early 2008, multiple failures in large financial institutions prompted case-by-case government interventions to address these failures. Dissatisfaction with these ad hoc responses was cited by the Treasury in proposing a broader response focusing on government purchase of trouble mortgage-related assets, hoping to stem uncertainty and fear by removing these assets from the financial system. In early October 2008, Congress passed, and the President signed, the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, creating the Troubled Assets Relief Program (TARP). This book briefly introduces aspects of the current financial instability. Following this, it outlines the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act (EESA) legislation and the steps that Treasury has taken to implement EESA. Also examined with a more in-depth analysis of the current financial instability are the potential causes of the financial instability, some sources of the current instability, and how financial instability may spill over into the broader economy.
Troubled Asset Relief Program
Author : U.s. Government Accountability Office
Publisher :
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 37,63 MB
Release : 2017-08-04
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ISBN : 9781974227051
Book Description
"The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 authorized the Department of the Treasury (Treasury) to create the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), a $700 billion program designed to restore the liquidity and stability of the financial system. The act also requires that GAO report every 60 days on TARP activities. This report examines (1) the condition and status of TARP programs; (2) Treasury's management of TARP operations, including staffing for the Office of Financial Stability (OFS) and oversight of contractors and financial agents; and (3) what is known about the direct and indirect costs of TARP. To do this work, GAO analyzed audited financial data for various TARP programs; reviewed documentation such as program terms and internal decision memos; analyzed TARP cost estimates from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), the Office of Management and Budget, and Treasury; and interviewed CBO and OFS officials."
Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP)
Author : A. Nicole Clowers
Publisher :
Page : 55 pages
File Size : 22,51 MB
Release : 2015-02-07
Category :
ISBN : 9781457866067
Book Description
The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 (EESA) authorized the Treasury Department (Treasury) to create the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), designed to restore liquidity and stability to the U.S. financial system and to preserve homeownership by assisting borrowers struggling to make their mortgage payments. Congress reduced the initial authorized amount of $700 billion to $475 billion as part of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. EESA also required a report every 60 days on TARP activities in the financial and mortgage sectors. This report provides an update on the condition of all TARP programs -- nonhousing and housing -- as of September 30, 2014. Table and figures. This is a print on demand report.
The Light and Dark Side of TARP.
Author : Christian Farruggio
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Page : pages
File Size : 29,77 MB
Release : 2015
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ISBN :
Book Description
Employing four event dates of the U.S. “Troubled Asset Relief Program” (TARP) this paper empirically investigates the impact of the first announcement of TARP (September 19, 2008), the announcement of revised TARP (October 14, 2008), respective capital infusions under TARP-CPP and capital repayments on changes in shareholder value and risk exposure of 125 supported U.S. banks as perceived by the capital market through share price reactions for an entire sample period from September 19, 2008 to June 16, 2010. Our analysis reveals a light and a dark side of TARP. While announcements as well as capital repayments may restore market confidence and financial stability, equity capital injections to banks are observed to be a severe impediment to an increase in bank shareholder value and financial soundness.
The Financial Crisis Inquiry Report
Author : Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission
Publisher : Cosimo, Inc.
Page : 692 pages
File Size : 23,88 MB
Release : 2011-05-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1616405414
Book Description
The Financial Crisis Inquiry Report, published by the U.S. Government and the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission in early 2011, is the official government report on the United States financial collapse and the review of major financial institutions that bankrupted and failed, or would have without help from the government. The commission and the report were implemented after Congress passed an act in 2009 to review and prevent fraudulent activity. The report details, among other things, the periods before, during, and after the crisis, what led up to it, and analyses of subprime mortgage lending, credit expansion and banking policies, the collapse of companies like Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and the federal bailouts of Lehman and AIG. It also discusses the aftermath of the fallout and our current state. This report should be of interest to anyone concerned about the financial situation in the U.S. and around the world.THE FINANCIAL CRISIS INQUIRY COMMISSION is an independent, bi-partisan, government-appointed panel of 10 people that was created to "examine the causes, domestic and global, of the current financial and economic crisis in the United States." It was established as part of the Fraud Enforcement and Recovery Act of 2009. The commission consisted of private citizens with expertise in economics and finance, banking, housing, market regulation, and consumer protection. They examined and reported on "the collapse of major financial institutions that failed or would have failed if not for exceptional assistance from the government."News Dissector DANNY SCHECHTER is a journalist, blogger and filmmaker. He has been reporting on economic crises since the 1980's when he was with ABC News. His film In Debt We Trust warned of the economic meltdown in 2006. He has since written three books on the subject including Plunder: Investigating Our Economic Calamity (Cosimo Books, 2008), and The Crime Of Our Time: Why Wall Street Is Not Too Big to Jail (Disinfo Books, 2011), a companion to his latest film Plunder The Crime Of Our Time. He can be reached online at www.newsdissector.com.
Rebuilding the Global Economy
Author : Adam S. Posen
Publisher : Peterson Institute for International Economics
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 21,73 MB
Release : 2021-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0881327433
Book Description
A special series outlining policy priorities and solutions in 2021 by the Peterson Institute for International Economics.
Crisis and Response
Author : Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
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Page : pages
File Size : 43,91 MB
Release : 2018-03-06
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ISBN : 9780966180817
Book Description
Crisis and Response: An FDIC History, 2008¿2013 reviews the experience of the FDIC during a period in which the agency was confronted with two interconnected and overlapping crises¿first, the financial crisis in 2008 and 2009, and second, a banking crisis that began in 2008 and continued until 2013. The history examines the FDIC¿s response, contributes to an understanding of what occurred, and shares lessons from the agency¿s experience.
The Lender of Last Resort Function after the Global Financial Crisis
Author : Marc Dobler
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 63 pages
File Size : 31,24 MB
Release : 2016-01-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1513567780
Book Description
The global financial crisis (GFC) has renewed interest in emergency liquidity support (sometimes referred to as “Lender of Last Resort”) provided by central banks to financial institutions and challenged the traditional way of conducting these operations. Despite a vast literature on the topic, central bank approaches and practices vary considerably. In this paper we focus on, for the most part, the provision of idiosyncratic support, approaching it from an operational perspective; highlighting different approaches adopted by central banks; and also identifying some of the issues that arose during the GFC.
Banking Bailout Law
Author : Virág Blazsek
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 25,10 MB
Release : 2020-10-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1000208346
Book Description
Setting forth the building blocks of banking bailout law, this book reconstructs a regulatory framework that might better serve countries during future crisis situations. It builds upon recent, carefully selected case studies from the US, the EU, the UK, Spain and Hungary to answer the questions of what went wrong with the bank bailouts in the EU, why the US performed better in terms of crisis management, and how bailouts could be regulated and conducted more successfully in the future. Employing a comparative methodology, it examines the different bailout and bank resolution techniques and tools and identifies the pros and cons of the different legal and regulatory options and their underlying principles. In the post-2008 legal-regulatory architecture financial institution specific insolvency proceedings were further developed or implemented on both sides of the Atlantic. Ten years after the most recent financial crisis, there is sufficient empirical evidence to evaluate the outcomes of the bank bailouts in the US and the EU and to examine a number of cases under the EU’s new bank resolution regime. This book will be of interest of anyone in the field of finance, banking, central banking, monetary policy and insolvency law.
