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

We examine how investors' perception of bank balance sheet risk evolved before and during the March-April 2023 bank run …. To do so, we estimate the covariance ("beta") of bank excess stock returns with returns on factors constructed from long … bank risk shifted in both the time series and the cross-section. From January 2022 to February 2023, both factor betas were …

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 …

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

firm incentives in a post-reform financial system. -- Financial regulatory reform ; corporate governance ; bank charter … ; bank insolvency …

cumulative abnormal returns (|CAR|) of stress-tested bank holding companies averages almost 3 percent. Cumulative abnormal …