bank liquidity creation and these liquidity-reducing effects are smaller among more profitable banks and larger among …

disclose to the public? By integrating the gravity model of investment with the state-specific process of bank deregulation … that occurred in the United States from the 1980s through the 1990s, we develop a bank-specific, time-varying measure of … and the frequency with which banks restate financial statements. The results suggest that competition reduces bank opacity …

disclose to the public? By integrating the gravity model of investment with the state-specific process of bank deregulation … that occurred in the United States from the 1980s through the 1990s, we develop a bank-specific, time-varying measure of … and the frequency with which banks restate financial statements. The results suggest that competition reduces bank opacity …

Although policymakers often discuss tradeoffs between bank competition and stability, past research provides differing … competition materially boosts individual and systemic bank risk. With respect to the mechanisms, we find that competition reduces …

We assess the impact of bank deregulation on the distribution of income in the United States. From the 1970s through … the 1990s, most states removed restrictions on intrastate branching, which intensified bank competition and improved bank … little impact on incomes above the median. Bank deregulation tightened the distribution of income by increasing the relative …

policy implications as they imply that the same regulation will have different effects on bank risk taking depending on the …, 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 …

In this paper and the associated online database, we provide new data and measures of bank regulatory and supervisory … questions, including information on permissible bank activities, capital requirements, the powers of official supervisory … performance of banking systems. Since the underlying surveys are large and complex, we construct summary indices of key bank …

greater insider ownership leads to less equity issuances. Several tests are consistent with the view that bank insiders are … between bank equity and lending, the results stress that ownership structure can shape the resilience of banks-and hence the …