The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 is the most recent federal government attempt to help economically distressed communities. It allowed for the creation of 8,764 designated “opportunity zones” in July 2018 that cover parts of all 50 States, the District of Columbia and five U.S. territories....

This paper is the first paper to provide a comprehensive review of the US regulatory treatment of a relatively recent and controversial source of funds, namely brokered deposits. To do this, we consider the extent to which banks rely on brokered deposits, as well as the impact of these funds on...

Banks have long relied on a number of funding sources, including equity capital, non-brokered and brokered deposits, and other liabilities, to make various types of loans and investments. And for almost as long, bank regulatory authorities have imposed various restrictions and costs on those...

Ten states and the District of Columbia prohibit the operation of payday loan stores, and thirty-one other states have imposed regulatory restraints on the controversial industry, ranging, for example, from caps on fees and loan amounts to the number of rollovers and renewals a borrower may...

In this paper, we examine the differences between commercially-owned ILCs and those owned by financial firms, and offer a current assessment of ILC performance, paying particular attention to commercially-owned ILCs, and their contribution to the US banking system. The rules governing their...

Sweep deposits from brokerage firms to banks vary inversely with the stock market. When the stock market declines, retail investors reduce risk and sell stocks, with the proceeds typically swept out of brokerage firms and into banks. The relation is asymmetric as sweep deposits do not appear to...

This paper is the first paper to provide a comprehensive review of the US regulatory treatment of a relatively recent and controversial source of funds, namely brokered deposits. To do this, we consider the extent to which banks rely on brokered deposits, as well as the impact of these funds on...

We analyze the optimal capital structure of a nation from a corporate finance perspective. In particular, we draw an analogy between a nation's fiat money and corporate equity following Bolton and Huang (2018). Based on dynamic capital structure theory, we develop a stochastic model to determine...

We examine the direct and indirect impacts of natural disasters on deposit rates of bank branches during the period 2008 – 2017. Our approach is one of the first to capture spatial spillover effects of disasters on the deposit rate setting of branches based on their geographic distance from...

We investigate the role of mutual fund flows in incorporating market sentiment into asset prices. We show that retail investors adjust their investments among mutual fund categories in response to changes in market sentiment. Consistent with sentiment-induced price pressure through fund flows,...