financial services, the number of U.S. bank branches has continued to increase steadily over time. Further, an increasing … lower bank-average deposits per branch and roughly equal volumes of small business loans per branch, but no reduction in net …-sized branch networks had lower bank-average deposits and small business loan volume per branch, but had lower net deposit costs …

. As is well known, the banking authority can eliminate the possibility of a bank run by committing to suspend payments to … suspension is insufficient to dissuade depositors from participating in the run. Bank runs can then occur with positive …

not sufficiently restrain monopoly rents already. Thus, our results suggest that in Germany's bank-dominated financial …

, amount of borrowing, and level of capital. Using a sample of 549 bank-years for publicly traded banks from 1992 to 2002, we … increased bank capital levels, perhaps because option grants create a contingent liability for the firm that needs to be funded …

had a measurable effect on the stock market valuation of the forty-two bank holding companies subject to the SEC order. I …

particular, I find that a bank affiliated with a multi-bank holding company is significantly safer than either a stand-alone bank … or a bank affiliated with a one-bank holding company. Not only does affiliation reduce the probability of future … other banks. Moreover, the effects of affiliation are strengthened for an expanding bank holding company. However, the …

In moral hazard models, bank shareholders have incentives to transfer wealth from the deposit insurer - that is … value, and a risk measure, this paper develops a semi-parametric model for estimating the critical level of bank risk at …

This paper examines the relationship between the amount of information disclosed by bank holding companies (BHCs) and …