competition on bank orientation - i.e., the choice of relationship based versus transactional banking. We empirically investigate … the impact of interbank competition on bank branch orientation. We employ a unique data set containing detailed … information on bank-firm relationships. We find that bank branches facing stiff local competition engage considerably more in …

explain about two-thirds of the variation of bank capitalization over the business cycle. We estimate that provisioning …

capitalization ratios of small US bank holding companies (BHCs) are substantially lower than the reported ratios. Empirical evidence … deductions for investments in minority-owned affiliates. These findings have important implications for the regulation of bank …