and Efficient Banks Are Such a Good Idea, Why Are They So Rare? -- 2. The Game of Bank Bargains -- 3. Tools of Conquest … Banking -- 5. Banks and Democracy -- Section Two. The Cost of Banker-Populist Alliances The United States versus Canada -- 6 …. Crippled by Populism -- 7. The New U.S. Bank Bargain -- 8. Leverage, Regulatory Failure, and the Subprime Crisis -- 9. Durable …

This paper identifies how bank branching benefited local economies during the Great Depression. Using archival data and … narrative evidence, I show how Bank of America's branch network in 1930s California created an internal capital market to … competing banking offices. The bank's presence caused smaller city property value contractions and stronger recoveries through …