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 …

American exceptionalism: democracy and the regulation of corporate governance: the case of nineteenth-century Pennsylvania in …-century Massachusetts / Eric Hilt ; comment: Claudia Rei ; The evolution of bank boards of directors in New York,1840-1950 / Howard … Bodenhorn and Eugene N. White -- Bank behavior and credit markets. Did railroads make antebellum U.S. banks more sound? / Jeremy …

factories, the regulation and governance of banks, the transportation revolution’s influence on bank stability and survival, and …

We use a novel, household opinions-based measure – Public Confidence in a Bank – to explore the role of bank-level and … banks publicly monitored during 2010–2017. We find that public confidence in a bank is highly sensitive to the industry …-level financial stability indicators, but less sensitive to bank-level risk characteristics. This result reveals an important role of …