2 edition of Failure costs of government-regulated financial firms found in the catalog.
Failure costs of government-regulated financial firms
James R Barth
Published
1986
by Office of Policy and Economic Research, Federal Home Loan Bank Board in Washington, D.C
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Written in
Edition Notes
| Other titles | Failure costs of government regulated financial firms |
| Statement | by James R. Barth, R. Dan Brumbaugh, Jr., and Daniel Sauerhaft |
| Series | Research working paper -- no. 123, Research working paper (United States. Federal Home Loan Bank Board. Office of Policy and Economic Research) -- # 123 |
| Contributions | Brumbaugh, R. Dan, Sauerhaft, Daniel, United States. Federal Home Loan Bank Board. Office of Policy and Economic Research |
| The Physical Object | |
|---|---|
| Pagination | 40 p. ; |
| Number of Pages | 40 |
| ID Numbers | |
| Open Library | OL15575266M |
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Get this from a library. Failure costs of government-regulated financial firms: the case of thrift institutions. [James R Barth; R Dan Brumbaugh; Daniel Sauerhaft; United States. Federal Home Loan Bank Board.
Office of Policy and Economic Research.]. Dan Brumbaugh Jr's 27 research works with citations and reads, including: Restructuring Regulation and Financial Institutions. “Failure Costs of Government-Regulated Financial Firms: The Case of Thrift Institutions.” Research working paper no.
Washington: Federal Home Loan Bank Board, Office of Policy and Economic Research, October Cited by: Financial regulations are laws that govern banks, investment firms, and insurance companies. They protect Failure costs of government-regulated financial firms book from financial risk and fraud.
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This article examines the determinants of both book-value insolvency and regulatory closure in the thrift industry.
Agency theory suggests that the determinants of insolvency and closure are a function of conflicts between shareholders and creditors, shareholders and managers, and regulators and taxpayers.
Certain thrift attributes may have differing effects upon insolvency and closure because Cited by: for consumers, companies or Government. In order to address this, Government sets legal and institutional frameworks for markets and companies to operate in. That is, it puts in place rules and regulations that determine appropriate conduct of firms and individuals, and the File Size: KB.
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A market in which the economies of scale are so great that the largest firm has the lowest costs and is able to drive out competitors is called a(n) a. natural monopoly. market failure. See J.R.
Barth, D.R. Brumbaugh and D. Sauerhaft, “Failure Costs of Government‐Regulated Financial Firms: The Case of Thrift Institutions,” Federal Home Loan Bank Board, (June ).
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