The Power of Inaction: Bank Bailouts in Comparison
ISBN: 9780801471155
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Cornell University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Bank failures -- Government policy; Bailouts (Government policy);

Cornelia Woll details the varying relationships between financial institutions and national governments by comparing national bank rescue schemes in the United States and Europe.


Cornelia Woll is Professor of Political Science at Sciences Po Paris and Co-Director of MaxPo and LIEPP. She is the author of Firm Interests: How Governments Shape Business Lobbying on Global Trade , also from Cornell, and coeditor of Economic Patriotism in Open Economies .

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