Information and financial crisis policy-making

Dados Bibliográficos

ID6290609
AutoresChristopher Gandrud (0000-0003-4723-7585, Department of International Politics, City University London, UK; European Central Bank, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, autor correspondente), Mícheál O''Keeffe, Mícheál O’keeffe (European Central Bank), Mícheál O'Keeffe (Department of International Politics, City University London, UK; European Central Bank, Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
Ano2017
Volume24
Fascículo3
Páginas386-405
Data de publicação2017-03-09
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of European Public Policy (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1350-1763 • E-ISSN: 1466-4429
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/13501763.2016.1149205
OpenAlexW2201657049
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas2
Referências citadas24

The degree to which governments intervene to contain financial crises varies considerably. We aim to understand why policy-makers choose the level of intervention they do to contain financial shocks. In particular, we want to understand why policy-makers may choose policies that create outcomes they do not want. We focus on a defining feature of financial crisis policy-making that has been largely unaddressed in the literature on policy responses to crises: policy-makers lack good information about the health of their banking systems. So they rely on their bureaucrats and other actors for necessary information. However, information providers may have different policy preferences. To understand the interactions between these actors and the implications for policy choice, we advance a signalling game of financial crisis containment. We use a case study of the recent Irish crisis to demonstrate how information asymmetries can have a significant impact on bailout choices

Bailout · Business · Economic policy · Economics · Financial crisis · Information asymmetry · Intervention (counseling · Macroeconomics · Public economics · Banking stability, regulation, efficiency · Financial Literacy, Pension, Retirement Analysis · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Finance