. Using branch-level deposit rate data, we find little evidence for market discipline as rates are similar across bank … correlated with loan growth in other states in which their bank has some presence, suggesting internal capital markets help … reallocate the bank's funding …

We use the term structure of bank CD rates to examine whether maturity-transformation risk is priced into the rates … banks offer customers. We find that depositors pay a significant cost for the liquidity provided by bank deposits. This cost …

in the Horizontal Merger Guidelines. Through a model of enforcement, we find that agencies challenge mergers they expect …

mergers. We then simulate a representative set of U.S. mergers in order to evaluate merger review thresholds. Our main … lenient 2010 merger guidelines and unharmed, on average, under enforcement of the more stringent 1982 merger guidelines. We …

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 …

banks in individual EU countries help to explain the nature of cross-border merger activity. If they wish to protect …

-rated tranches were economically trivial for the typical bank, but banks with greater holdings performed more poorly during the …-rated tranches are not higher for banks with large trading books in regressions that control for bank size. The ratio of highly …-rated tranches holdings to assets increases with bank assets, but not for banks with more than $50 billion of assets. This evidence …

accounting for loan portfolios held to maturity. Marked-to-market bank assets have declined by an average of 10% across all the …-- unlike insured depositors, uninsured depositors stand to lose a part of their deposits if the bank fails, potentially giving … them incentives to run. A case study of the recently failed Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) is illustrative. 10 percent of banks …