This paper identifies how bank branching benefited local economies during the Great Depression. Using archival data and … narrative evidence, I show how Bank of America's branch network in 1930s California created an internal capital market to … competing banking offices. The bank's presence caused smaller city property value contractions and stronger recoveries through …

The purpose of this study is to explore the influence of bank capital, bank liquidity level and credit risk on the … USA banking industry. The findings show that bank capital and credit risk influence profitability in Asian developed … is similar for large, small and medium-size banks. The results of this paper indicate that liquidity and bank capital …

The recent crisis has underlined the importance of sound bank liquidity management. In response, regulators are … authors analyse the impact of liquid asset holdings on bank profitability for a sample of large U.S. and Canadian banks … that this relationship varies depending on a bank's business model and the state of the economy. These results are …

We study the transmission of monetary policy through bank securities portfolios using granular supervisory data on U ….S. bank securities, hedging positions, and corporate credit. Banks that experienced larger losses on their securities during …