the financial crisis. Obviously, bank performance decreases dramatically during the crisis. This decrease occurs for all … bank size groups. However, the largest banks see the largest losses. We find several measures of corporate governance …

Many large U.S. bank holding companies (BHCs) continued to pay dividends during the recent financial crisis, even as …

subsidiaries. We suggest improvements in governance as well greater disclosure of related party transactions in bank holding …In this paper we study the intra-group transactions between the parent bank and its foreign subsidiaries in European … subsidiary banks were large by assets in some of the member states the related party transactions with the parent bank created a …

Many large U.S. bank holding companies (BHCs) continued to pay dividends during the recent financial crisis, even as …

We provide estimates of holdings of highly rated securitization tranches of U.S. bank holding companies before the … some large banks, they were economically trivial for the typical bank. Banks with high holdings were not riskier before the … tranches were correlated with a bank's securitization activity. Theories unrelated to the securitization activity, such as “bad …

This paper examines the impact of charter type, holding company structure, and measures of bank fragility on the … likelihood of a bank bailout or failure during the late 2000s financial crisis. The empirical results indicate that established … brokered deposits, and held a relatively large portfolio of real estate loans. In addition, bank failure was more likely for …

Bank branch density, defined as the number of bank branches to total deposits, has significantly declined over the past …