The paper employs a unique identification strategy that links survey data on household consumption expenditure to bank … level data in order to estimate the effects of bank financial distress on consumer credit and consumption expenditures …

, their ownership structures, and national bank regulations. We focus on conflicts between bank managers and owners over risk …, and show that bank risk taking varies positively with the comparative power of shareholders within the corporate … governance structure of each bank. Moreover, we show that the relation between bank risk and capital regulations, deposit …

Ongoing financial innovation and greater information availability increase the tradability of bank assets and reduce … banks' dependence on individual bank managers as private information in the lending process declines. In this paper we argue … bank managers and shareholders becomes less severe. Consequently, banks' capital structure needs to be less concerned with …

In this paper, we analyse whether bank owners or bank managers were the driving force behind the risks incurred in the … manager-controlled banks. The results are robust to controlling for a wide variety of bank specific, country specific …, regulatory and legal variables. Regulation does not seem to mitigate risk taking by bank owners. We find no evidence that profit …

This paper provides the first comprehensive econometric analysis of the causes of bank distress during the Depression …. We assemble bank-level data for virtually all Fed member banks, and combine those data with county-level, state … bank failure. We construct a model of bank survival duration using these fundamental determinants of bank failure as …

macroeconomic and bank regulatory reform. Bank regulatory policy promoted privatization, financial liberalization, and free entry …. Argentina's bank regulatory system now is widely regarded as one of the two or three most successful among emerging market …