Much recent academic attention has focused on the relative ability of markets and bank supervisors to assess the risk of depository institutions. We add to that literature by comparing the factors influencing bank holding company risk, as gauged by equity markets, with the factors influencing...

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Improvement Act of 1991 (FDICIA) forced uninsured creditors such as jumbo-CD holders to bear more of the losses from bank failures. Because no other federal laws affecting loss exposure took effect in the surrounding years, the Act offers a natural...

Provides a comprehensive overview of contemporary scholarship in sociology and related disciplines focused on the complex relations of culture to social structures and everyday life. This book draws diverse approaches to cultural sociology into a dialogue that charts different pathways for...