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

Bank capital requirements are based on a mix of market values and book values. We investigate the effects of a policy … banking organizations. Our analysis is based on security-level data on individual bank portfolios matched to bond …

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 …

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

Although bank capital regulation permits a bank to choose freely between equity and subordinated debt to meet capital …

perquisites that yield private benefits). The privately optimal level of bank leverage is neither too low nor too high: It … substitution induced at high levels of leverage. However, when correlated bank failures can impose significant social costs …, governments may have no option but to bail out bank creditors. Anticipation of this generates an equilibrium featuring systemic …

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 …

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 …