macroeconomic and bank regulatory reform. Bank regulatory policy promoted privatization, financial liberalization, and free entry …. Argentina's bank regulatory system now is widely regarded as one of the two or three most successful among emerging market …

one large, universal bank remained. We explore the extent to which that merger resulted in monopoly rents for the combined …

This paper provides the first comprehensive econometric analysis of the causes of bank distress during the Depression …. We assemble bank-level data for virtually all Fed member banks, and combine those data with county-level, state … bank failure. We construct a model of bank survival duration using these fundamental determinants of bank failure as …