Bank bailouts in the aftermath of the collapse of Lehman Brothers and the onset of the Great Recession brought into sharp relief the power that the global financial sector holds over national politics, and provoked widespread public outrage. In The Power of Inaction, Cornelia Woll details the varying relationships between financial institutions and national governments by comparing national bank rescue schemes in the United States and Europe. Woll starts with a broad overview of bank bailouts in more than twenty countries. Using extensive interviews conducted with bankers, lawmakers, and other key players, she then examines three pairs of countries where similar outcomes might be expected: the United States and United Kingdom, France and Germany, Ireland and Denmark. She finds, however, substantial variation within these pairs. In some cases the financial sector is intimately involved in the design of bailout packages; elsewhere it chooses to remain at arm's length. Such differences are often ascribed to one of two conditions: either the state is strong and can impose terms, or the state is weak and corrupted by industry lobbying. Woll presents a third option, where the inaction of the financial sector critically shapes the design of bailout packages in favor of the industry. She demonstrates that financial institutions were most powerful in those settings where they could avoid a joint response and force national policymakers to deal with banks on a piecemeal basis. The power to remain collectively inactive, she argues, has had important consequences for bailout arrangements and ultimately affected how the public and private sectors have shared the cost burden of these massive policy decisions.
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LîbraryoCongressCatalogîng-în-PublîcatîonDataWoll, Cornelîa, author. The power o înactîon: bank baîlouts în comparîson / Cornelîa Woll. pages cm. — (Cornell studîes în polîtîcal economy) Includes bîblîographîcal reerences and îndex. ISBN 978-0-8014-5235-2 (cloth: alk. paper) 1. Bank aîlures—Government polîcy. 2. Baîlouts (Government polîcy) I. Tîtle. HG1725.W654 2014 332.1—dc23 2013042835
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Figures1.1 Stock market actîvîty versus bank credît2.1 Real house prîces, 2003–92.2 Commîtted and actual expendîtures, 2007–102.3 Total expendîtures 2008–10, (în € bîllîon)2.4 Instruments used as percentage o actual expendîtures5.1 DIC resolutîon o banks
Tables 2.1 Net costs 2008–112.2 (Un)attractîveness o government support or partîcîpatîng înstîtutîons2.3 Instîtutîonal setup o natîonal schemes2.4 Comparîson summary3.1 Experîence o crîsîs management în 2008–93.2 Power relatîonshîp and actîons by country4.1 Approaches to bank accountabîlîty8.1 The role o central banks8.2 Overvîew o bank accountabîlîty