The effects of geographical deregulation on competition in banking markets is examined. Using a model that develops an index of competition as proposed by Bresnahan and applied to banking markets by Shaffer, the empirical evidence suggests that geographical deregulation has not had a significant...

Prior research on international banking has proposed many reasons for the multinationalization of U.S. banks butprovided little empirical support for its propositions. Using a pooled -time series data set from 1987 to 1990, this study analyzes the ray and expansion path scale economies and...

We first investigate how articles are distributed among universities in a set of 14 highly ranked academic business journals over the period 1990-2002. We find the top publishing schools in accounting and finance supply a greater portion of their discipline's major journal articles than in...