Bank consolidation is a global phenomenon. It may enhance the value of firms in the industry if, for example, it is driven by scale and scope economies, but skeptics often accuse bankers of sacrificing value to build empires. Using data on bank holding companies in the U.S., we find strong...

We argue for a shift in the focus of modeling production from the traditional assumptions of profit maximization and cost minimization to a more general assumption of managerial utility maximization that can incorporate risk incentives into the analysis of production and recover value-maximizing...

Big data and advanced algorithms using machine learning (ML) have changed the way financial products and services are produced, delivered, and consumed, and they have a potential to change the entire financial landscapes. Along with providing customers with better, faster, and cheaper services,...