rehabilitate the U.S. banking industry. Many of those strategies were used also in Japan to combat its banking problems in the 1990 … respect to four of the others. So far the U.S. has avoided Japan's problem of having impaired banks prop up zombie firms …

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 …

Bank balance sheet lending is commonly viewed as the predominant form of lending. We document and study two margins of … document the limits of the shadow bank substitution margin: shadow banks substitute for traditional—deposit-taking—banks in … quantitative consequences of several policies on lending volume and pricing, bank stability, and the distribution of consumer …

how bank supervision and regulation affected banking stability during the Great Depression. In response to well …-organized interest groups and public concern over the bank failures of the 1920s, many U.S. states adopted supervisory and regulatory … liquidate banks quickly experienced higher state bank suspension rates from 1929 to 1933 …

This paper uses our new database on bank regulation and supervision in 107 countries to assess the relationship between …) regulatory restrictions on bank activities and the mixing of banking and commerce; (ii) regulations on domestic and foreign bank … supervision and regulation of bank activities. The findings instead suggest that policies that rely on guidelines that (1) force …

efforts to supervise and guarantee bank solvency. African depositors face high costs for mitigating the loss exposures that …