The role of several theoretical factors in determining the demand of US banks for borrowed reserves from the Fed is empirically investigated. The main objective is to isolate the candidate(s) most likely responsible for the recent observed phenomenon of banks reluctance to borrow from the Fed,...

This research employed a two-sample t-test to examine the January effect in the U.S. insurance industry over the period 1980–1999. Results of the two-sample t-test indicate that the mean January returns are significantly higher than non-January returns, and January returns for smaller firms...