recognizing greater risks and losses, can lead to solvency problems that look like liquidity (bank-run) crises. Regulatory …

The first part of this paper provides a historical perspective on bank risks. Five-year moving average measures of … outside New York banks from 1950-1976.We use a carefully constructed series of bank balance sheet data to compute correlations … proposed in Sharpe ("Bank Capital Adequacy, Deposit Insurance and Security Values," June 1978) to gain information about …

of deposit insurance as a function of capital-asset ratio for a bank with demand liabilities and longer term, default …

Bank balance sheet lending is commonly viewed as the predominant form of lending. We document and study two margins of … document the limits of the shadow bank substitution margin: shadow banks substitute for traditional--deposit-taking--banks in … quantitative consequences of several policies on lending volume and pricing, bank stability, and the distribution of consumer …

We study asset and debt characteristics of US bank holding companies. We show that financial institutions, especially …

We investigate the relationships of bank failures and balance sheet conditions with measures of proximity to different … forms of transportation in the United States over the period from 1830-1860. A series of hazard models and bank …. Specifically, railroads facilitated better information flows about banks that led to modifications in bank asset composition …

. Upon the arrival of a signal about banks' future defaults, investors update their expectations of bank solvency. If their …

discount rate - a measure reflecting the bank's opportunity cost of money holdings. For most banks the model's prediction …