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Theory predicts that "common ownership" (ownership of rivals by a common shareholder) can be anticompetitive because it reduces the weight firms place on their own profits and shifts weight toward rival firms held by common shareholders. In this paper we use accounting data from the banking...
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financial institutions. First, we establish that age, gender, and education jointly affect the variability of bank performance …
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We examine the effect of the social networks of bank directors on board gender diversity and compensation using a … are significant differences in the size and gender composition of social networks of male vs female bank directors. We … also find that samegender networks play an important role in determining the gender composition of bank boards. Finally, we …
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The Durbin Amendment to the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010 alters the competitive structure of the debit card payment processing industry and caps debit card interchange fees for banks with over $10 billion in assets. Market participants predicted that debit...
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minimum standard is unlikely to exhibit adverse consequences for credit supply and bank profitability … profitability of German banks and their capacity to lend. With a NSFR-model that is partially calibrated against reported NSFRs, we …
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charged already higher interest rates to their borrowers after controlling for other bank specific characteristics and general …
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charged already higher interest rates to their borrowers after controlling for other bank specific characteristics and general …
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accounting, during their first (partial) year in charge, (2) incoming CEOs from outside the bank take a larger earnings bath than …
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The 30-year fixed-rate fully amortizing mortgage (or "traditional fixed-rate mortgage") was a substantial innovation when first developed during the Great Depression. However, it has three major flaws. First, because homeowner equity accumulates slowly during the first decade, homeowners are...
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Banks in bad financial shape are more likely to appoint executive directors from the outside than those in good shape. It is, however, not clear whether all of these appointments necessarily lead to the desired turnaround. We analyze the performance effects of new board members with external...
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