Currently, private trust in commercial banks declines as a consequence of today´s financial crisis. As past crises, e … in a New Keynesian framework with commercial banks in order to analyze the implications of a loss of confidence. In …

wake of the financial crisis of 2007/2008. We show that owner controlled banks had higher profits in the years before the … manager-controlled banks. The results are robust to controlling for a wide variety of bank specific, country specific … shareholders may not be socially optimal in banks. …

evidence on Swiss banks to assess both benefits and costs. The analysis yields two main conclusions. The long-run economic …

The current financial crisis has sparked intense debate about how weak banks should be resolved. Despite international …