Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine empirically the effects of investments by US banks in advertising and …

panel of community banks. Design/methodology/approach – The empirical tests for RPE utilized a two-stage approach in a … unique dataset of community banks executive turnover over a ten-year period. This allowed the authors to better estimate the … relationship is more pronounced in better-governed banks, which are more likely to engage in value-enhancing disciplinary actions …

examination of 44 large banks headquartered in 13 countries; eight of these countries belong to the European Union, seven belong …, different patterns in the relationships across countries and even across banks within the same country. Also, higher … correlations between bank and sovereign risk are found in countries in which the ratio of the assets of banks relative to their …

performing loans, and had less income diversity. Consistent with being financially fragile, de novo banks and those banks that … grew substantially prior to the crisis faced an increased likelihood of failure relative to established banks. However …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether the bond market disciplines all banks equally, in the … sense of demanding the same relative risk premium across banks of different risk over the business cycle. Design … paper finds that the impact of recessions is not uniform across banks – it affects riskier banks more than safer ones. In …

consolidation – creating larger banks that operate in more markets – may be associated with an increase in credit availability for … bank operating efficiency. Originality/value – The paper offers insights into the effect of banks on “debt-sensitive” small …

accounting for the short-sell moratorium. Data on 110 regional banks in six US regions from January 2002 to December 30, 2011 are … increased individual bank risk for a majority of banks in six geographic regions, but also increased return in three of three … 2008 moratorium took effect. Originality/value – Regional banks have generally not achieved the size needed to be deemed …

-formal financial sectors are taken into account. It could be inferred that, tight monetary policy targeting the ability of banks to …, targeting the ability of banks to receive deposits. In the same vein, adjusting the lending rate could be more effective than …

that the regulation and supervision of banks varies widely across countries in many different dimensions. Furthermore …