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Guardians of Finance: Making Regulators Work for Us

Barth, James R.; Caprio, Gerard Jr.; Levine, Ross - The MIT Press

luminaries that includes Timothy Geithner, Henry Paulson, Robert Rubin, Ben Bernanke, and Alan Greenspan. In Guardians of Finance …

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Communication within Banking Organizations and Small Business Lending

Levine, Ross - 2019

We investigate how communication within banks affects small business lending. Using travel time between a bank's headquarters and its branches to proxy for the costs of communicating soft information, we exploit shocks to these travel times to evaluate the impact of within bank communication...

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Do Bank Insiders Impede Equity Issuances?

Goetz, Martin - 2020

We evaluate the role of insider ownership in shaping banks' equity issuances in response to the global financial crisis. We construct a unique dataset on the ownership structure of U.S. banks and their equity issuances and discover that greater insider ownership leads to less equity issuances....

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Bank Governance, Regulation, and Risk Taking

Laeven, Luc - 2008

This paper conducts the first empirical assessment of theories concerning relationships among risk taking by banks, their ownership structures, and national bank regulations. We focus on conflicts between bank managers and owners over risk, and show that bank risk taking varies positively with...

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Is There a Diversification Discount in Financial Conglomerates?

Laeven, Luc - 2005

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Governance and Bank Valuation

Caprio, Gerard - 2003

Which public policies and ownership structures enhance the governance of banks? This paper constructs a new database on the ownership of banks internationally and then assesses the ramifications of ownership, shareholder protection laws, and supervisory/regulatory policies on bank valuations....

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Bank Concentration and Crises

Beck, Thorsten - 2003

relationship between the market structure of the banking industry and bank fragility, this paper studies the impact of bank … concentration, bank regulations, and national institutions on the likelihood of suffering a systemic banking crisis. Using data on … 70 countries from 1980 to 1997, we find that crises are less likely in economies with (i) more concentrated banking …

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Bank Supervision and Corporate Finance

Beck, Thorsten - 2003

and corruption in raising external finance, which is consistent with political/regulatory capture theories. Creating a …

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Bank Regulation and Supervision : What Works Best?

Barth, James R. - 2002

specific regulatory and supervisory practices and banking-sector development, efficiency, and fragility. The paper examines: (i …) regulatory restrictions on bank activities and the mixing of banking and commerce; (ii) regulations on domestic and foreign bank …

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Stock Markets, Banks, and Growth : Panel Evidence

Beck, Thorsten - 2002

This paper investigates the impact of stock markets and banks on economic growth using a panel data set for the period 1976-98 and applying recent GMM techniques developed for dynamic panels. On balance, we find that stock markets and banks positively influence economic growth and these findings...

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