We exploit variation in commercial bank capital ratios across states to identify the impact of commercial bank balance … indicate a lack of substitutes for bank funding both in the short and long run. This lack of substitutes implies a notable … highlight the potential effects that bank balance sheet pressures, for example, from tightening capital adequacy standards, such …

attention on the relationship between financial frictions and economic growth. With bank loans having only recently started …: whether the standards used to assign commercial bank CAMELS ratings have changed materially over time (1991-2011). We show …

We study how a bank credit crunch -- a dramatic worsening of firm and consumer access to bank credit, such as the one … credit. We find that, for employment, household access to bank loans matters more than firm access to bank loans. In addition …

experience of the United States during the Great Depression, a period of intense bank distress, to conduct our analysis. We … availability as indicated by the survey. A number of scholars have posited different ways that bank distress constrained credit …. In this study, we find that bank failures had the most dominant impact, but there is also some evidence for the …

Because they engage in maturity transformation, a steepening of the yield curve should, all else equal, boost bank … profitability. We re-examine this conventional wisdom by estimating the reaction of bank intraday stock returns to exogenous … repricing time or maturity of bank assets and liabilities and analyze how the reaction of stock returns varies with the size of …

lending is economically significant. The mechanism of the transmission appears to be through changes in bank capital and new …

? To investigate this question, I exploit changes in tax rates on bank profits across U.S. states. Banks respond by …