Bank branch density, defined as the number of bank branches to total deposits, has significantly declined over the past …

financial crisis of the 20th century - the Great Depression. Using balance-sheet and systemic risk measures at the bank level …, we build an econometric model with incidental truncation that jointly considers bank survival, the type of bank closure … (consolidations, absorption, and failures), and changes to bank risk. Despite roughly 9,000 bank closures, risk did not leave the …

This paper identifies how bank branching benefited local economies during the Great Depression. Using archival data and … narrative evidence, I show how Bank of America's branch network in 1930s California created an internal capital market to … competing banking offices. The bank's presence caused smaller city property value contractions and stronger recoveries through …

This paper analyzes the contagion effects associated with the failure of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) and identifies bank … held-to-maturity securities, bank size, and cash holdings had a significant impact, while better-quality assets or holdings …

We examine banking regulation in a macroeconomic model of bank runs. We construct a general equilibrium model where …