by changes following bank mergers involving Federal Reserve customer banks. This paper evaluates the effect of bank … two or more Reserve Bank customers have resulted in volume losses, especially during the first quarter following the … additional check-processing volume because of bank mergers. …

This study is an empirical investigation of theoretical predictions concerning the impact of bank competition on bank … banking increases, the loan-to-asset ratio will rise (under reasonable assumptions), but the probability of bank failure can … either increase or decrease. However, the probability of bank failure will fall if and only if borrowers' response to take on …

bank profitability. We evaluate a broad field of research by introducing a general framework for a profit maximizing bank …

The measurement of bank output, a difficult and contentious issue, has become even more important in the aftermath of … information and transactions imply a quantity measure of bank service output based on transaction counts instead of balances of … on balances, this implies a potentially considerable bias in the estimate of bank output growth in Europe vis-à-vis that …