exposure was such that it did not result in any abnormal fluctuations in bank values at the height of the crisis. When we … measure the sensitivity of bank returns to changes in the Greek CDS spread in an effort to measure banks' exposure to the … crisis, we find that changes in the Greek CDS spread provide no additional explanatory power for bank returns beyond what a U …

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

An examination of U.S. banking history shows that economically efficient private bank money requires that information …-revealing securities markets for bank liabilities be closed. That is, banks are optimally opaque, which is why they are regulated and … examined. I show this by examining the transition from private bank notes, the predominant form of money before the U.S. Civil …

use the model to look at monetary policy and show that allowing banks to sell long-term assets to the central bank after a … ; bank portfolio …

We examine the link between the genetic diversities of executive board members and bank financial misconduct. The … for bank specific variables, including other board characteristics, and to the use of instrumental variables …

Using supervisory data from large U.S. bank holding companies (BHCs), we document that BHCs suffer more operational …