between a safe technology and a risky (but socially inefficient) technology, and bank risk-taking is endogenous. Setting the …

; ii) the impact of regulation; and iii) how bank closures exacerbated the post-war bust. The boom encouraged new bank … bank portfolios, while higher minimum capital requirements dampened the effects. Banks that responded most aggressively to … the asset boom had a higher probability of closing in the bust, and counties with more bank closures experienced larger …