financial services, the number of U.S. bank branches has continued to increase steadily over time. Further, an increasing …") had lower bank-average deposits per branch and roughly equal volumes of small business loans per branch, but no reduction …, mid-sized branch networks had lower bank-average deposits and small business loan volume per branch, but had lower net …

. Using branch-level deposit rate data, we find little evidence for market discipline as rates are similar across bank … correlated with loan growth in other states in which their bank has some presence, suggesting internal capital markets help … reallocate the bank's funding …

participate in only one market and no bank participates in all markets). We modify the standard models to incorporate the fact …