financial conglomerates. We conjecture and provide evidence that the organizational complexity of the family of a bank is a … fundamental driver of the business model of the bank itself, as reflected in the management of the bank's own balance sheet. Using … change the scale of the lending channel for a large global bank by more than 30 percent. …

In the lead-up to the Great Depression, bank credit rapidly expanded and bank capital ratios declined. Banks, suffering … legislation gave the RFC broad authority to provide collateralized loans to almost any bank or corporation, especially small rural … March 1933 bank holiday …

bank-level dataset to assess at a quarterly frequency how changes in the U.S. Federal funds rate (before the crisis) and … the existence of a potent global bank lending channel. In response to changes in U.S. monetary conditions, U.S. banks … strongly adjust their cross-border claims in both the pre and post-crisis period. However, we also find that U.S. bank …

document the extent that herding exists in the banks or link different hypotheses to actual bank herding behavior. This paper … measures to U.S. commercial banks during the period from 1976 to 2010 to document bank herding behavior across the various … examine how herding has changed in response to changes in macroeconomic conditions and bank financial health over the past 30 …

This paper explores the relationship between bank global exposure and their syndicated loan spreads. Linking syndicated … loan information from Dealscan with confidential US bank foreign exposure data and borrower characteristics, we find that … more bank global exposure is associated with a higher loan spread that is statistically significant. To analyze this …