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 …

of creating an oligopoly. We assembled a data set that compares bank failures, lending rates, interest paid on deposits …

An examination of U.S. banking history shows that economically efficient private bank money requires that information …-revealing securities markets for bank liabilities be closed. That is, banks are optimally opaque, which is why they are regulated and … examined. I show this by examining the transition from private bank notes, the predominant form of money before the U.S. Civil …

. Second, did diffuse ownership systematically alter bank risk taking? It did. Banks with less concentrated ownership followed …

next three months. A comprehensive bank-level database reveals the public responded to signals sent by regulators' actions …

This paper identifies how bank branching benefited local economies during the Great Depression. Using archival data and … narrative evidence, I show how Bank of America's branch network in 1930s California created an internal capital market to … competing banking offices. The bank's presence caused smaller city property value contractions and stronger recoveries through …

-century Massachusetts / Eric Hilt ; comment: Claudia Rei ; The evolution of bank boards of directors in New York,1840-1950 / Howard … Bodenhorn and Eugene N. White -- Bank behavior and credit markets. Did railroads make antebellum U.S. banks more sound? / Jeremy …

emergency currency during a financial crisis and (2) the Federal Reserve Act of 1913 which established a central bank. We employ …