representatives on corporate boards. If a banking relationship is a substitute for the stock market, then interaction with a bank … monopolistic control over access to external capital markets, then bank interests may conflict with those of other equityholders … structure of the firms' equity. We test for conflicts-of-interest in bank behavior and ask whether the relationship between …

supporting the shareholder-as-customer model. Bank values responded positively to the presence of large-block individual … concerned with dividend returns than access). Moreover, firm value declined as directors consumed larger fractions of a bank …'s loans, which reduced the bank's ability to extend credit to other shareholders …

supervisory/regulatory policies on bank valuations. Except in a few countries with very strong shareholder protection laws, banks … cash flow rights mitigate the adverse effects of weak shareholder protection laws on bank valuations. These results are …

. Second, did diffuse ownership systematically alter bank risk taking? It did. Banks with less concentrated ownership followed …

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

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

In this paper and the associated online database, we provide new data and measures of bank regulatory and supervisory … questions, including information on permissible bank activities, capital requirements, the powers of official supervisory … performance of banking systems. Since the underlying surveys are large and complex, we construct summary indices of key bank …

-Steagall Act forced the banks to leave the securities business: as an internal securities department within the bank and as a … lending and underwriting were closely combined in the departmental structure. We find evidence that bank managers during this … effectiveness of a firm. They also suggest that bank regulators' interest in 'firewalls' between commercial and investment banking …