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The effects of large banks on the real economy are theoretically ambiguous and politically controversial. I identify quasi-exogenous increases in bank size in postwar Germany. I show that firms did not grow faster after their relationship banks became bigger. In fact, opaque borrowers grew more...
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the literature for Italy, interest rates on shortterm lending of liquid and well-capitalized banks react less to a …
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Does an intensification of competition among banks increase or decrease liquidity creation? By integrating the dynamic … process of interstate bank deregulation that lowered barriers to competition across U.S. states over the 1980s and 1990s with … facing each individual bank. We find that regulatory-induced competition reduced liquidity creation. Consistent with some …
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Did regulatory reforms that lowered barriers to competition among U.S. banks increase or decrease the quality of … information that banks disclose to the public and regulators? We find that an intensification of competition reduced abnormal … competition reduces bank opacity, enhancing the ability of markets and regulators to monitor banks …
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statutes that are more effective at preventing outsiders' entry and at mitigating price competition lead to less patenting. We … strongly restrict entry and price competition. We show that guilds that originated from medieval religious confraternities were … more likely to regulate entry and competition, and that the effect on patenting is robust to instrumenting guild statutes …
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This study examines the link between credit supply and hospital health outcomes. Using detailed data on hospitals and the banks that they borrow from, we use bank stress tests as exogenous shocks to credit access for hospitals that have lending relationships with tested banks. We find that...
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We examine the effect of negative nominal interest rates on bank profitability and behavior using a cross-country panel of over 5,100 banks in 27 countries. Our data set includes annual observations for Japanese and European banks between 2010 and 2016, which covers all advanced economies that...
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The largest commercial bank stocks, ranked by total size of the balance sheet, have significantly lower risk-adjusted returns than small- and medium-sized bank stocks, even though large banks are significantly more levered. We uncover a size factor in the component of bank returns that is...
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In this paper, we investigate whether U.S. bank holding companies (BHCs) with strong and independent risk management functions have lower enterprise-wide risk. We hand-collect information on the organizational structure of the risk management function at the 74 largest publicly-listed BHCs, and...
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We examine how special interests, measured by campaign contributions from the mortgage industry, and constituent interests, measured by the share of subprime borrowers in a congressional district, may have influenced U.S. government policy toward the housing sector during the subprime mortgage...
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