taking place for retail banking. Data on cross-border retail bank flows, cross-border bank mergers and the law of one price … reveal no evidence of integration in retail banking. This paper shows that the previous tests of bank integration are weak in … that they are not based on an equilibrium concept and are neither necessary nor sufficient statistics for bank integration …

We use exogenous variation in the degree of restrictions to bank competition across Italian provinces to study both the … effects of bank regulation and the impact of deregulation. We find that where entry was more restricted the cost of credit was … increase in bad loans. In provinces where restrictions to bank competition were most severe, the proportion of bad loans after …

) electronic payments system. We construct an equilibrium model of customer and bank adoption of ACH. We structurally estimate the …

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 examines the use of credit derivatives by US bank holding companies from 1999 to 2003 with assets in excess … of one billion dollars. Using the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Bank Holding Company Database, we find that in 2003 … represent on average two thirds of the assets of bank holding companies with assets in excess of $1 billion. Few banks are net …