Winning Connections? : Special Interests and the Sale of Failed Banks /

We study how lobbying affects the resolution of failed banks, using a sample of FDIC auctions between 2007 and 2014. We show that bidding banks that lobby regulators have a higher probability of winning an auction. In addition, the FDIC incurs higher costs in such auctions, amounting to 16.4 percent...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Igan, Deniz
Other Authors: Lambert, Thomas, Wagner, Wolf, Zhang, Quxian
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2017.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2017/262
Online Access:Full text available on IMF