We investigate the relationships of bank failures and balance sheet conditions with measures of proximity to different … forms of transportation in the United States over the period from 1830-1860. A series of hazard models and bank …. Specifically, railroads facilitated better information flows about banks that led to modifications in bank asset composition …

This study develops a multi-period structural model to value bank subordinated debt (subdebt) under different … risks, bank characteristics and regulatory policies affect subdebt prices and yield spreads. It finds that the … have the opposite effects. Also, subdebt spreads are less sensitive to bank risk when PCA is imposed than when capital …

firm incentives in a post-reform financial system. -- Financial regulatory reform ; corporate governance ; bank charter … ; bank insolvency …

In moral hazard models, bank shareholders have incentives to transfer wealth from the deposit insurer - that is … value, and a risk measure, this paper develops a semi-parametric model for estimating the critical level of bank risk at …

"New data reveals that bank distress peaked in New York City, at the center of the United States money market, in July … regulatory scrutiny, which was a delayed reaction to the failure of the Bank of United States, rather than the exposure of money …