examines the interplay among bank behavior, market structure, and regulation from the perspective of a variety of public policy … issues, including bank competition and risk, market discipline, antitrust issues, and capital regulation. New to this edition …1 The Banking Environment -- 2 Alternative Perspectives on Bank Behavior -- 3 The Industrial Economics of Banking -- 4 …

bank behavior, market structure, and regulation. It addresses a wide range of public policy topics, including bank … issues as the implications of large increases in bank reserve holdings in recent years, effects of nonprice competition …

An evolutionary model of the bank size distribution is presented based on the exchange and creation of deposit money …. In agreement with empirical results the derived size distribution is lognormal with a power law tail. The theory is based …