This paper investigates the impact on bank stock prices of emerging market currency crises and bailouts. The stock … events in countries experiencing a crisis. The paper uses the impact of the LTCM crisis on bank stock prices to put the …

operations of a large bank. Case studies of several branches were used to understand how and why the human resource management …'s performance. An important finding is that, even though all managers in this bank are given a formal set of human resource policies …

their investors. We show the bank has to have a fragile capital structure, subject to bank runs, in order to perform these … functions. Far from being an aberration to be regulated away, the funding of illiquid loans by a bank with volatile demand … such as narrow banking and bank capital requirements …

deposits excessively fragile in which case there is a role for outside bank capital. Greater bank capital reduces liquidity … creation by the bank but enables the bank to survive more often and avoid distress. A more subtle effect is that banks with … different amounts of capital extract different amounts of repayment from borrowers. The optimal bank capital structure trades …

The prevalence of shirking within a large Italian bank appears to be characterized by significant regional …

This paper examines the impact of the Asian crisis on bank stocks across four Western countries and six Asian countries …. In the second half of 1997, Western banks experienced positive returns. In contrast East Asian bank indices incurred … market impact only in Indonesia and the Philippines. Except for the Korean program, IMF programs had little effect on bank …

consider the tradeoff between the benefits of direct bank monitoring to the firm and the costs of active bank involvement in …. Consistent with high potential costs of active bank involvement, we find that bankers tend to be represented on the boards of … implications for the current bank regulatory reform debate, such as whether to permit banks to own equity in non-financial firms …

Mexico has experienced since 1995. Although fresh domestic bank lending dried up, tradable firms obtained financing in the …