We examine the connection between the number of bank relationships and firms' performance using a unique data set on Italian small firms for which banks are a major source of financing. Our evidence indicates that return on equity and return on assets decrease as the number of bank relationships...

Regulation of banks and financial institutions to avoid a crisis similar to the Financial Crisis of 2007-2008 has been a theme of financial regulation and much research. Much of the research has been explicitly designed to affect regulatory policy. In this article, I take a step back and...

Using international listed banks from the United States, Europe, Japan and China from 2004 to 2014, we analyse the effect on bank risk of some of the most relevant new elements of the prudential regulatory framework proposed in the wake of the Great Financial Crisis. We measure risk by a market...

Using a sample of international listed banks from the United States, Europe, Japan and China, our paper analyzes the effect on risk of some of the most relevant new elements of the prudential regulatory framework following the Financial Crisis of 2007-2008. Our analysis also takes into...

Using a sample of European banks and a series of events affecting governments' finances, we conduct an event study to examine whether there is a relationship between governments' fiscal difficulties and banks' stock returns. We find a significant reaction of banks' stocks to news concerning...

Recent innovations have made it feasible to transfer private digital currency without the intervention of an institution. A digital currency must prevent users from spending their balances more than once, which is easier said than done with purely digital currencies. Current digital currencies...

Milton Friedman's empirical research is very different in tone and substance than the research in a typical journal article. This chapter points out that the difference in tone and substance is directly related to Friedman's views on the foundations of statistics. Instead of viewing statistics...

We examine the output costs associated with 150 banking crises using cross country data for years after 1970. Many banking crises do not lead to contractions and most banking crises do not lead to large contractions, a result that holds for developed and developing economies. We examine which...

We provide substantial evidence that the futures market for West Texas Intermediate crude oil increased the short-term volatility of the cash price of crude oil. We show that the variability of prices increased using both published posted prices and transaction prices for producers. This...

Research provides evidence that the method chosen to elicit value has an important effect on a person's valuation. We hypothesize that role has a crucial effect on decision makers' elicited values: Buyers prefer to pay less and sellers prefer to collect more. We conduct experimental sessions and...