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Can Emerging Market Bank Regulators Establish Credible Discipline? The Case of Argentina, 1992-1999

Calomiris, Charles W. - 2000

banking system during the liberalization process. Argentina suffered some fallout from the Mexican tequila crisis of 1995, but … discipline after the crisis made Argentina's banking system quite resilient during the Asian, Russian, and Brazilian crises …

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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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Activity-Based Valuation of Bank Holding Companies

Calomiris, Charles W. - 2007

Standard valuation methods do not lend themselves to bank holding companies. Banks create value through the types of assets and liabilities they create (e.g., lending and deposit taking relationships). Bank income streams reflect heterogeneous sources of income which differ in their margins of...

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Is There a Diversification Discount in Financial Conglomerates?

Laeven, Luc - 2005

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Monopoly-Creating Bank Consolidation? The Merger of Fleet and BankBoston

Calomiris, Charles W. - 2005

The merger of Fleet and BankBoston in September 1999 resulted in a regional New England lending market in which only one large, universal bank remained. We explore the extent to which that merger resulted in monopoly rents for the combined entity in some niches within the regional loan market....

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Banker Fees and Acquisition Premia for Targets in Cash Tender Offers : Challenges to the Popular Wisdom on Banker Conflicts

Calomiris, Charles W. - 2005

, and there is no evidence that investment banks are suborned by acquirors with whom they have had a prior banking …

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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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