Bank owner contingent liability has been important in the development of many industrial countries. Unlimited liability on bank owners was an important element in the success of Scottish banking, which led Scotland to be free of the banking and monetary upheavals that occurred in Britain and the...

The sharp 1994 Mexican peso devaluation was followed by a financial-sector crisis, forcing the Mexican government to retake control of several banks and to grant substantial assistance to many others. This paper tests several hypotheses concerning the impact of devaluation. First, event-study...

This study investigates a 100-year history of the asset-risk and capital structure choices of the publicly-traded banks located in the UK, Canada and US. These three countries were chosen because their diverse regulatory and banking structures, while sharing common legal and cultural...

Persistent cycles of devaluation, debt repudiation, and financial crisis have been recurrent themes in Latin America and elsewhere. This study focuses on one such event, namely, the Mexican peso devaluation, debt, and financial-sector crisis of 1994-95. This paper utilizes an event-study...

The sharp 1994-1995 Mexican peso devaluation was followed by a financial-sector crisis, forcing the Mexican government to retake control of several banks and to grant substantial assistance to many other banks. This paper uses daily stock price data to test several hypotheses concerning the...