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Toxic Asset Subsidies and the Early Redemption of TALF Loans

This paper develops a formula to numerically estimate the unsubsidized, fair-market value of the toxic assets purchased with Federal Reserve loans.

Toxic assets in the 18th century | CEPR

Toxic assets in the 18th century · Joseph Zeira · Oren Levintal · Joseph Zeira · Oren Levintal · The financial accelerator within and between ...

Banks could bet on toxic assets with taxpayers' money - Reuters

U.S. banks that received billions of dollars of taxpayer money to bolster their capital could place bets on the same toxic assets that got ...

What are toxic assets? Definition and meaning

Toxic assets are financial assets that have plunged in value because the market has frozen. There were many during the 2007/8 financial crisis.

How the toxic asset scheme works

The US Treasury Department this morning revealed details on how it plans to address the toxic assets on banks' balance sheets, providing two ...

Toxic banks or toxic assets? | Council on Foreign Relations

There is perhaps a third option: handing the toxic assets over to the banks' existing equity investors and the banks long-term unsecured ...

Quietly preventing a bank run - American Economic Association

The Troubled Asset Relief Program would purchase the toxic assets from weak financial institutions, swapping them out for healthy government ...

Infographic: Tracking a Toxic Asset - Fast Company

NPR's Planet Money produces an astounding infographic that shows just how bad a bet the banks made when they went crazy for bundles of ...

The Default-Prone U.S. Toxic Asset Auction Plan - IDEAS/RePEc

Downloadable! Applying auction theory to the toxic-asset rescue plan currently released by the United States Treasury Department, this paper demonstrates an ...

Subprime mortgage crisis - Wikipedia

A continuous buildup of toxic assets in the form of subprime mortgages acted as a catalyst for the Great Recession in the United States. The collapse of ...

Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) Information

Treasury announced a voluntary Capital Purchase Program to encourage US financial institutions to build capital to increase the flow of financing to US ...

Toxic asset bubbles | Economic Theory - SpringerLink

As a result of bankers' risk shifting, welfare-reducing asset bubbles (or “toxic asset bubbles”) emerge when the risk of bubble collapse is high ...

About TARP | U.S. Department of the Treasury

TARP is the Troubled Asset Relief Program, created to implement programs to stabilize the financial system during the financial crisis of 2008.

US to sell billions-worth of toxic assets - RFI

The US Treasury Department said on Monday that it would start selling off tens of billions of dollars worth of toxic asset in an effort to ...

Toxic Assets - Inside Higher Ed

Let me offer examples of times when spouses turn out to be toxic assets -- focusing first on the point of hiring: The spouse joins the candidate ...

Charles Zheng on the U.S. Toxic Asset Auction Plan

Thus, says Zheng: “After defeating their rich rivals and acquiring the toxic assets, such bidders will default on government-provided loans ...

Get with the Toxic Asset De-Tox Programme - Finextra Research

1. Toxicity is inversely proportional to transparency - or welcome to the world of known unknowns. These assets are not toxic just because they ...

Why Toxic Assets Are So Hard to Clean Up - Stanford Law School

Despite trillions of dollars of new government programs, one of the original causes of the financial crisis -- the toxic assets on bank ...

CrossFit: When the Face of a Brand Becomes a Toxic Asset

CrossFit: When the Face of a Brand Becomes a Toxic Asset. 20-05. Notre Dame, IN: The Eugene D. Fanning Center for Business Communication, Mendoza College of ...

Government bonds held at banks may be so-called 'toxic asset' of ...

Deposit growth has outstripped bank lending over the past few years, forcing banks to place more capital in the perceived safety of medium and ...