This paper examines the common factors that drive the returns of U.S. bank holding companies from 1997 to 2005. We … that the market factor clearly dominates in explaining bank returns, followed by the Fama-French factors. The bank … tend to load in the same direction on the first component. Relative to the returns of large firms in other sectors, bank …

International financial linkages, particularly through global bank flows, generate important questions about the …. Empirical tests of the trilemma support this view that global bank effects are heterogeneous and that the primary drivers of …

developing a new methodology to separate firms' credit shocks from loan supply shocks, using a vast sample of matched bank …-firm lending data. We decompose loan movements in Japan for the period 1990 to 2010 into bank, firm, industry, and common shocks … economy, which creates a role for granular shocks, as in Gabaix (2011). As a result, idiosyncratic bank shocks - movements in …

companies it is less likely that the chairperson of the supervisory board is a former executive of the same bank. Over time …

nationwide, regarding different outreach indicators. At the federal state level, bank outreach shows South-North and West …-East gaps. Combining regional and bank data at the district level for 2005, we examine the determinants of geographic and … share of elder people and bank size in a region. Because of their public mission to serve all regions, public savings banks …

Strong lending relationships between banks and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) play a key role in the bank … long-term bank-customer relationships. The present paper takes a new look by considering also interactional variables which …