). Because regulations affecting bank entry varied considerably across states and the industrial organization of the U.S. banking …

removing barriers to bank entry on bank competition and economic growth. As governments were not concerned about systemic … stability in this period, we are able to isolate the effects of bank competition from those of state implicit guarantees. We … find that the introduction of free banking laws stimulated the creation of new banks and led to more bank failures. Our …

in the economy. Thus, the study recommends pre-crisis reforms testing by the apex bank. …

control for banks' financial strength. Our results challenge the idea that bank credit fosters economic growth and that …

a bank-based financial system. However, some scholars find that China has a market-based financial system. This study … tries to resolve this puzzle. Following the definitions of the World Bank, we construct China’s financial structure index … with stock issuance amount, China is bank-based, which aligns with economic intuition …

bank-efficiency and financial inclusion among the frontier and fragile groups, respectively. Results from both the dynamic … the long-run through Fintech adoption. The study recommends the collaboration of Fintech with banks, improved bank …

Government intervention during the banking holiday of March 1933 resolved the uncertainty usually created by bank … effects of bank suspensions. In this paper, I propose a way to correct for this bias by adjusting the size of banking holiday …

We examine historical banking crises through the lens of bank equity declines, which cover a broad sample of episodes … of banking distress both with and without banking panics. To do this, we construct a new dataset on bank equity returns … absence of panics, large bank equity declines are associated with substantial credit contractions and output gaps. While …

the main consequences of the global financial crisis, the pro-cyclical contraction of bank credit, and the advanced …