and calibrate a model of arbitrator selection with uninformed consumers. We find that competition between arbitrators …

actions by bank owners to change management, contract with depositors to extend liability maturity structure, write off bad … assets, and/or inject capital affected bank survival and deposit retention. This historical episode is particularly …

macroeconomic and bank regulatory reform. Bank regulatory policy promoted privatization, financial liberalization, and free entry …. Argentina's bank regulatory system now is widely regarded as one of the two or three most successful among emerging market …

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 …

greater insider ownership leads to less equity issuances. Several tests are consistent with the view that bank insiders are … between bank equity and lending, the results stress that ownership structure can shape the resilience of banks--and hence the …

Is bank capital structure designed to extract deposit subsidies? We address this question by studying capital structure … banks finance themselves primarily with short-term debt and originate long-term loans. However, shadow bank debt is provided … primarily by informed and concentrated lenders. (4) Shadow bank leverage increases substantially with size, and the …

, their ownership structures, and national bank regulations. We focus on conflicts between bank managers and owners over risk …, and show that bank risk taking varies positively with the comparative power of shareholders within the corporate … governance structure of each bank. Moreover, we show that the relation between bank risk and capital regulations, deposit …

Standard valuation methods do not lend themselves to bank holding companies. Banks create value through the types of … assets and liabilities they create (e.g., lending and deposit taking relationships). Bank income streams reflect … balance sheet and income statement to bank value. Our approach explains substantial cross-sectional variation in observed …