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removing barriers to bank entry on bank competition and economic growth. As governments were not concerned about systemic … stability in this period, we are able to isolate the effects of bank competition from those of state implicit guarantees. We … find that the introduction of free banking laws stimulated the creation of new banks and led to more bank failures. Our …
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reorganization or dissolution of many early public banks. A prominent exception was the Bank of England, whose adept management of a …
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dissolution of many early public banks. A prominent exception was the Bank of England, whose adept management of a fiscally backed …
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This paper reviews the characteristics of the international incursions by banks since the early 1990s, examines the implications of the US subprime meltdown crisis and ensuing credit crunch for the pursuit of international banking activities, and provides a prospective view on how banks will...
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The early 20th century United States provides an opportunity to determine whether imposing capital requirements on commercial banks promotes banking stability in the long run. The structure of the national banking system facilitates inference using a regression discontinuity design. The...
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We use a novel, household opinions-based measure – Public Confidence in a Bank – to explore the role of bank-level and … banks publicly monitored during 2010–2017. We find that public confidence in a bank is highly sensitive to the industry …-level financial stability indicators, but less sensitive to bank-level risk characteristics. This result reveals an important role of …
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I exploit variation in the adoption of disclosure and supervisory regulation across U.S. states to examine their impact on the development and stability of commercial banks. The empirical results suggest that the adoption of state-level requirements to report financial statements in local...
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reorganization or dissolution of many early public banks. A prominent exception was the Bank of England, whose adept management of a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013058397
dissolution of many early public banks. A prominent exception was the Bank of England, whose adept management of a fiscally backed …
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