bank failure rates in Michigan during the period 1932-1934, which includes the important Michigan banking crisis of early … purchases (the policy tool employed after March 1933) on bank failure rates. Our estimates treat the receipt of RFC assistance … assistance that are not directly related to failure risk) for analyzing the effects of RFC assistance on bank survival. We find …

behavior. By paying out dividends, a bank transfers value to its shareholders away from creditors, among whom are other banks …. This way, one bank's dividend payout policy affects the equity value and risk of default of other banks. When such negative … externalities are strong and bank franchise values are not too low, the private equilibrium can feature excess dividends relative to …

quality of bank assets and management. All three types of information were useful for gauging the condition of the bank, and … affected bank behavior, including a publicly observable signal (skipping a dividend payment). Participants in the market for … bank liabilities reacted to this signal in ways that promoted market discipline …

This paper provides the first comprehensive econometric analysis of the causes of bank distress during the Depression …. We assemble bank-level data for virtually all Fed member banks, and combine those data with county-level, state … bank failure. We construct a model of bank survival duration using these fundamental determinants of bank failure as …

The regulation of bank capital as a means of smoothing the credit cycle is a central element of forthcoming macro …--on both questions, using a unique dataset. In the UK, regulators have imposed time-varying, bank-specific minimum capital …