provide guidance to policymakers regarding bank privatization …

relationship between banks'' risk of failure, market structure, bank ownership, and banks'' screening and bankruptcy costs. These …,000 bank-year observations for 133 non-industrialized countries during the 1993-2004 period. Four main results obtain. First …, the positive and significant relationship between bank concentration and bank risk of failure found in Boyd, De Nicolò and …

presence of both regulatory constraints and tax asymmetries, this paper explores the impact of corporate tax bias on bank …

This paper assesses the impact of the geographic diversification of bank holding company (BHC) assets across the United … States on their market valuations. Using two novel identification strategies based on the dynamic process of interstate bank …

savings, and bank profitability and efficiency. It also examines the benefits of public involvement and governance in the …

the lowest feasible level of bank risk. Conversely, if the intermediation technology exhibits constant returns to scale …, or is relatively inefficient, then imperfect competition and intermediate levels of bank risks are optimal. These results …