We study how consumers trade off digital versus in-person banking services and how consumer demand impacts bank technology choices. We use the COVID-19 pandemic as a laboratory, where pandemic risk raised the cost of in-person bank services. After the cost of in-person banking rises, customers,...

We examine how banks respond to large natural disasters when corporate borrowers are located in the neighborhood of the disaster area. We find robust evidence that banks charge significantly higher loan spreads for firms located in the neighborhood of the disaster area than for remote firms. The...

This paper examines the relation between corporate ownership structure and bank loan syndicate structure. We find that the divergence between control rights and cash-flow rights of a borrowing firm's largest ultimate owner has a significant impact on the concentration and composition of the...