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 …

merge and post-merger value creation and synergies? We compile comprehensive information on U.S. bank acquisitions from 1986 …

operations of a large bank. Case studies of several branches were used to understand how and why the human resource management …'s performance. An important finding is that, even though all managers in this bank are given a formal set of human resource policies …

next three months. A comprehensive bank-level database reveals the public responded to signals sent by regulators' actions …

of creating an oligopoly. We assembled a data set that compares bank failures, lending rates, interest paid on deposits … were generally higher in Canada; (2) interest income received on securities was generally slightly higher in Canada; (3 …) interest rates charged on loans were generally quite similar; (4) net rates of return to equity were generally higher in Canada …

We use exogenous variation in the degree of restrictions to bank competition across Italian provinces to study both the … effects of bank regulation and the impact of deregulation. We find that where entry was more restricted the cost of credit was … increase in bad loans. In provinces where restrictions to bank competition were most severe, the proportion of bad loans after …

crucial year 1930. When the crisis worsened, state and local authorities began declaring bank holidays,' which limited the … right of depositors to make withdrawals, a movement that culminated in the declaration of a national bank holiday by …

quasi-exogenous increases in bank size in postwar Germany. I show that firms did not grow faster after their relationship …, but worked with riskier borrowers. Bank managers benefited through higher salaries and media attention. The paper presents …

1820s. Nonetheless, Massachusetts did not open access easily. This paper documents that until 1812, bank charters were only … of the Federalist bank. The paper documents the close association of politicians and bankers. Before 1811, close to three …

degrees of dependence on external financing or access to capital. However, because regulations affecting bank entry varied … sector. Regulations on bank entry and other banking market characteristics thus appear to exert an independent influence on …