This paper examines the common factors that drive the returns of U.S. bank holding companies from 1997 to 2005. We … that the market factor clearly dominates in explaining bank returns, followed by the Fama-French factors. The bank … tend to load in the same direction on the first component. Relative to the returns of large firms in other sectors, bank …

developing a new methodology to separate firms' credit shocks from loan supply shocks, using a vast sample of matched bank …-firm lending data. We decompose loan movements in Japan for the period 1990 to 2010 into bank, firm, industry, and common shocks … economy, which creates a role for granular shocks, as in Gabaix (2011). As a result, idiosyncratic bank shocks - movements in …

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

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

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 …

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 …

Using data from bank holding company regulatory reports, we examine the relationshipbetween stock repurchases and … financial performance for a large sample of bank holding companies over the years 1987 to 1998. The primary result is that … be driven primarily by bank holding companies with publicly traded stock, especially those companies whose stock is …

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 …

advisors to acquirers. In particular, the target earns higher abnormal returns when the target's own bank certifies the (more …. Second, acquirers predominantly use commercial bank advisors to obtain access to bank loans that may be used to finance the …. Moreover, the advising bank's recommendations may be distorted by considerations related to credit exposure incurred in both …