Swedish banking rescue

Swedish banking rescue

During 1991 and 1992, a housing bubble in Sweden deflated, resulting in a severe credit crunch and widespread bank insolvency. The causes were similar to those of the subprime mortgage crisis of 2007-2008. In response, the government took the following actions: [cite news | first=Carter| last=Dougherty| coauthors= | title=Stopping a Financial Crisis, the Swedish Way | date=2008-09-22 | publisher= | url =http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/23/business/worldbusiness/23krona.html | work =The New York Times | pages = | accessdate = 2008-09-24 | language = ]

*The government announced the state would guarantee all bank deposits and creditors of the nation’s 114 banks.
*Sweden's government assumed bad bank debts, but banks had to write down losses and issue an ownership interest (common stock) to the government. Shareholders were typically wiped out, but bondholders were protected.
*Nordbanken and Gota Bank were granted financial support and nationalized at a cost of 64 billion krona. [cite book
title=The Nordic Banking Crises
author=Burkhard Drees, Ceyla Pazarbaşioğlu
publisher=International Monetary Fund
date=1998
isbn=1557757003
] The firms' bad debts were transferred to the asset-management companies Securum and Retriva which sold off the assets, mainly real estate, that the banks held as collateral for these debts.
*When distressed assets were later sold, the proceeds flowed to the state, and the government was able to recoup more money later by selling its shares in the nationalized banks in public offerings.
*Sweden formed the Bank Support Agency to supervise institutions that needed recapitalization.

This bailout initially cost about 4% of Sweden's GDP, later lowered to between 0-2% of GDP depending on various assumptions due to the value of stock later sold when the nationalized banks were privatized.

The economists Brad DeLong and Paul Krugman have proposed the Swedish experiment as a model for what should be done to solve the economic crisis currently affecting the United States. [http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/28/the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly/]

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