-funded capital injections. However, on closer inspection the composition of bank capital shifted radically from one based on common …

-rated tranches were economically trivial for the typical bank, but banks with greater holdings performed more poorly during the …-rated tranches are not higher for banks with large trading books in regressions that control for bank size. The ratio of highly …-rated tranches holdings to assets increases with bank assets, but not for banks with more than $50 billion of assets. This evidence …

We investigate whether a bank's performance during the 1998 crisis, which was viewed at the time as the most dramatic … crisis since the Great Depression, predicts its performance during the recent financial crisis. One hypothesis is that a bank …. Another hypothesis is that a bank's poor experience in a crisis is tied to aspects of its business model that are persistent …

the effect of a state's interstate banking regulation on the level and structure of bank CEO compensation. Using panel …

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 …

separate firm-borrowing shocks from bank-supply shocks using a vast sample of matched bank-firm lending data. We decompose … aggregate loan movements in Japan for the period 1990 to 2010 into bank, firm, industry, and common shocks. The high degree of … role for granular shocks as in Gabaix (2011). We show that idiosyncratic granular bank-supply shocks explain 30-40 percent …

the area that would eventually become the Manufacturing Belt. Using a new bank census, the paper shows that these changes …