Using data from bank holding company regulatory reports, we examine the relationshipbetween stock repurchases and … financial performance for a large sample of bank holding companies over the years 1987 to 1998. The primary result is that … be driven primarily by bank holding companies with publicly traded stock, especially those companies whose stock is …

the model using post-1982 data has little effect on these conclusions"--Federal Reserve Bank of New York web site …

details and in the style of central bank intervention, along both cross-sectional and time-series dimensions of our data. Our … requirements ; central bank procedures …

"We propose a model of the interbank money market with an explicit role for central bank intervention and periodic … reserve requirements, and study the interaction of profit-maximizing banks with a central bank targeting interest rates at …"--Federal Reserve Bank of New York web site …