financial services, the number of U.S. bank branches has continued to increase steadily over time. Further, an increasing … lower bank-average deposits per branch and roughly equal volumes of small business loans per branch, but no reduction in net …-sized branch networks had lower bank-average deposits and small business loan volume per branch, but had lower net deposit costs …

% of the U.S. mortgage market. Exploiting within-servicer variation in these data, we find that bank-held loans are 26% to …, modifications of bank-held loans are more efficient: conditional on a modification, bank-held loans have lower post …

impact of bank mergers on deposit rates. In particular, results on the dynamics of deposit rates surrounding bank mergers … vary substantially across studies. In this paper, we aim for a comprehensive empirical analysis of a bank merger's impact … monthly frequency for the time period 1997-2006. These data are matched with individual bank and local market characteristics …

bank. The results suggest that capital requirements may only be of second-order importance for banks? capital structures …

Nachdem die Immobilienkrise in den USA auch Deutschland erreicht und die IKB Deutsche Industriebank AG sowie die …

This paper examines the common factors that drive the returns of U.S. bank holding companies from 1997 to 2005. We … that the market factor clearly dominates in explaining bank returns, followed by the Fama-French factors. The bank … tend to load in the same direction on the first component. Relative to the returns of large firms in other sectors, bank …

assess the relative importance of cross-border bank spillovers as compared to domestic bank spillovers. The results suggest …