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 …

This paper provides the first comprehensive econometric analysis of the causes of bank distress during the Depression …. We assemble bank-level data for virtually all Fed member banks, and combine those data with county-level, state … bank failure. We construct a model of bank survival duration using these fundamental determinants of bank failure as …

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 …

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 …

quality of bank assets and management. All three types of information were useful for gauging the condition of the bank, and … affected bank behavior, including a publicly observable signal (skipping a dividend payment). Participants in the market for … bank liabilities reacted to this signal in ways that promoted market discipline …

, 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 …