Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Preface to the Third Edition -- Preface to the Second Edition, 2005 -- Preface to the First Edition, 2000 -- Acknowledgments -- One. The Stock Market in Historical Perspective -- Two. The Bond Market in Historical Perspective -- Three. The Real...

In this paper we relate a bank’s choice between retail and wholesale liabilities to real economic uncertainty and the resulting volatility of bank loan volumes. We argue that since the volume of retail deposits is slow and costly to adjust to shocks in the volume of bank assets, banks facing...