This study investigates how bank characteristics affect bank stock reactions to changes in the federal funds rate target. Using a dataset of all publicly listed banks of the United States from October 1988 through December 2007, both our regression analysis and categorical analysis provide...

This paper investigates the international spillover effect of U.S. monetary policy changes on non-U.S. bank stock returns. Our data-set covers 442 non-U.S. banks in 57 countries for 1994-2007. We find that there exists an inverse relationship between non-U.S. bank stock returns and unexpected...