In the lead-up to the Great Depression, bank credit rapidly expanded and bank capital ratios declined. Banks, suffering … legislation gave the RFC broad authority to provide collateralized loans to almost any bank or corporation, especially small rural … March 1933 bank holiday …

meaningful. Despite unprecedented central bank intervention, the stock returns of both U.S. and European banks have remained … significantly related to market and bank-level fundamentals in the years since the financial crisis. Modeling bank returns as a … function of their profitability, growth and solvency explains 44% to 60% of the variation in U.S. and European bank stock …

institutions: banks and bank management -- Financial industry structure -- Regulating the financial system -- Central banks … reserve and the european central bank -- The central bank balance sheet and the money supply process -- Monetary policy …: stabilizing the domestic economy -- Exchange-rate policy and the central bank -- Money growth, money demand, and modern monetary …