We amend the standard cost model to account for the role of financial capital in banking. The cost function is conditioned on the level of capital, but we model the demand for financial capital so that it can serve as a cushion against insolvency for potentially risk-averse managers and as a...

The major emphasis in previous money demand studies has been at the aggregate level, with little systematic attention paid to sectoral differences in money holding behavior. This paper attempts to address the latter issue by focusing on more homogeneous subgroups to gauge money holding patterns....

Steven B. Caudill, Richard W. Ault, and Richard P. Saba (1989) introduce an approach to estimating a hedonic price equation that accounts for censoring d ue to rent control in a rental housing market. This paper extends and clarifies their assertion on the consistency of the ordinary least...