. Many empirical studies suggest that financial reform promoted bank competition in most mature and emerging economies …. However, some earlier studies that adopted conventional approaches to measure competition concluded that bank competition in … specifications and estimation methods. All in all, our analysis suggests that bank lending markets in China have been more …

shocks. Much less is known about how lending relationships and bank-specific characteristics affect the functioning of the … investigate how bank-specific characteristics (size, liquidity, capitalization, funding structure) and the bank-firm relationship …

panel database of South Dakota bank stockholders from 1910-1934 to study bank stockholder growth as well as its effect on … bank composition and risk. Overall, the average number of stockholders in a bank rose from 8 to 21 over the period with … with a subsequent increase in a bank's proportion of loans-to-assets, but no direct effect on bank closure outside of this …

their compensation to remain in the bank. We isolate withdrawals due to liquidity needs, deterioration of fundamentals, and … expiration of time deposits around unexpected uncertainty events and high-frequency microdata from a large Greek bank. Deposit … remain in the bank during episodes of high uncertainty. Our findings provide new insights into the design of interventions …

We examine the effect of negative nominal interest rates on bank profitability and behavior using a cross-country panel …

The largest commercial bank stocks, ranked by total size of the balance sheet, have significantly lower risk …-adjusted returns than small- and medium-sized bank stocks, even though large banks are significantly more levered. We uncover a size … factor in the component of bank returns that is orthogonal to the standard risk factors, including small-minus-big, which has …