portfolio production that was estimated for a sample of highest-level U.S. bank holding companies in Hughes, Lang, Mester, and … experience clear gains in their financial performance, but society also benefits from the enhanced bank safety that follows from …

method, and a number of bank, market, and regulatory characteristics. We review the existing literature and provide new …

Great strides have been made in the theory of bank technology in terms of explaining banks' comparative advantage in … theories to analyze the particular environment of banking. In recent years, the empirical modeling of bank technology and the … measurement of bank performance have begun to incorporate these theoretical developments and yield interesting insights that …

We provide evidence on the costs and profitability of relationship lending by banks. We derive bank-specific measures … rates, and then estimate cost and profit functions to examine how smoothing affects bank costs and profits.<p> <p …-term contract between a bank and its borrower, while loan rate smoothing in response to an interest rate shock is. …

, the paper bridges the gulf between (1) the banking literature that studies moral hazard effects of bank regulation without … the microeconomics of bank production without explicitly considering how banks' production decisions influence their … bank managers cost minimization versus value maximization are estimated using U.S. data on highest-level bank holding …

promoting bank safety and soundness. The Bank for International Settlements contends that market discipline imposes strong … potential losses from their risk exposures. Using 2007 and 2013 data on top-tier, publicly traded U.S. bank holding companies …