An update of Boyd and Gertler.

An empirical analysis that links employment changes resulting from the birth, death, expansion, and contraction of various-sized banks with the local economic performance of 217 SMSAs over the 1980-82 and 1984-86 periods. Results suggest that the deaths of midsized banks have a negative, but...

An empirical study of the relationship between market concentration and bank performance in rural markets, examining both actual and potential competition and controlling for risk, market share, and simultaneity.