This paper examines an effect of deregulating the market for corporate control on CEO compensation in the banking … industry. Given that each state's banking regulation defines the competitiveness of its corporate control market, we examine … the effect of a state's interstate banking regulation on the level and structure of bank CEO compensation. Using panel …

The passage of the National Banking Acts stabilized the existing financial system and encouraged the entry of 729 banks …

performance of banking systems. Since the underlying surveys are large and complex, we construct summary indices of key bank … regulatory and supervisory policies to facilitate cross-country comparisons and analyses of changes in banking policies over time …

the two ways in which U.S. commercial banks organized their investment banking operations before the 1933 Glass … effectiveness of a firm. They also suggest that bank regulators' interest in 'firewalls' between commercial and investment banking …

elements of deposit-insurance schemes differ substantially across countries. It argues that differences in the design of … universal method for preventing and resolving banking problems and that the structure of a country's safety net should evolve …

rehabilitate the U.S. banking industry. Many of those strategies were used also in Japan to combat its banking problems in the 1990 …

how bank supervision and regulation affected banking stability during the Great Depression. In response to well … standards that undermined the stability of state banking systems in the 1930s. Those states that prohibited branch banking, had …

specific regulatory and supervisory practices and banking-sector development, efficiency, and fragility. The paper examines: (i …) regulatory restrictions on bank activities and the mixing of banking and commerce; (ii) regulations on domestic and foreign bank …

This paper documents and explains the near-permanent banking stress African countries have experienced during the last … 20 years. The central hypothesis is that banking stress comes predominantly from unbooked losses and that the level of … unbooked losses a banking system can accumulate depends on its information environment and on the effectiveness of government …