We investigate the relationships of bank failures and balance sheet conditions with measures of proximity to different … forms of transportation in the United States over the period from 1830-1860. A series of hazard models and bank …. Specifically, railroads facilitated better information flows about banks that led to modifications in bank asset composition …

This study develops a multi-period structural model to value bank subordinated debt (subdebt) under different … risks, bank characteristics and regulatory policies affect subdebt prices and yield spreads. It finds that the … have the opposite effects. Also, subdebt spreads are less sensitive to bank risk when PCA is imposed than when capital …

This study is an empirical investigation of theoretical predictions concerning the impact of bank competition on bank … banking increases, the loan-to-asset ratio will rise (under reasonable assumptions), but the probability of bank failure can … either increase or decrease. However, the probability of bank failure will fall if and only if borrowers' response to take on …