Chari, VV;
Kehoe, PJ;
(2016)
Bailouts, Time Inconsistency, and Optimal Regulation: A Macroeconomic View.
American Economic Review
, 106
(9)
pp. 2458-2493.
10.1257/aer.20150157.
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Abstract
A common view is that bailouts of firms by governments are needed to cure inefficiencies in private markets. We propose an alternative view: even when private markets are efficient, costly bankruptcies will occur and benevolent governments without commitment will bail out firms to avoid bankruptcy costs. Bailouts then introduce inefficiencies where none had existed. Although granting the government orderly resolution powers which allow it to rewrite private contracts improves on bailout outcomes, regulating leverage and taxing size is needed to achieve the relevant constrained efficient outcome, the sustainably efficient outcome. This outcome respects governments' incentives to intervene when they lack commitment.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | Bailouts, Time Inconsistency, and Optimal Regulation: A Macroeconomic View |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1257/aer.20150157 |
| Publisher version: | http://doi.org/10.1257/aer.20150157 |
| Language: | English |
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| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1538762 |
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