Passed as part of the National Bank Act of 1933, the Glass-Steagall Act prohibits the mixing of commercial and investment bank activities. It was passed during a time of tumult in financial markets: the economy was in depression and there were many bank failures. Given the state of today's...

BHC expansion into nonbank financial activities may increase or decrease the standard deviation of BHC ROA and/or the probability of bankruptcy of the BHC. Using individual firm data and a new application of a simulated merger methodology, I find the standard deviation minimizing and bankruptcy...

An opinion that the regulatory structure of the financial industry must change to meet the needs of the next century by dismantling traditional partitions that have separated firms, rethinking functional regulation policies, and squarely facing the problem of moral hazard created by the federal...