opted for issuing blanket guarantees on bank liabilities to stop or avoid widespread bank runs. In theory, blanket … guarantees can prevent bank runs if they are credible. However, guarantee could add substantial fiscal costs to bank …

’s survey of terms of business lending. We find that ex-ante risk taking by banks (as measured by the risk rating of the bank …

interventions aimed at alleviating the bank capital crunch. We find that the growth of firms dependent on external financing is … disproportionately positively affected by bank recapitalization policies, and that this effect is quantitatively important and robust to …

This paper assesses the impact of the geographic diversification of bank holding company (BHC) assets across the United … States on their market valuations. Using two novel identification strategies based on the dynamic process of interstate bank …

Recent theoretical models argue that a bank’s organizational structure reflects its lending technology. A … hierarchically organized bank will employ mainly hard information, whereas a decentralized bank will rely more on soft information …. We investigate theoretically and empirically how bank organization shapes banking competition. Our theoretical model …