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This paper traces career transitions of federal and state U.S. banking regulators from a large sample of publicly available curricula vitae, and provides basic facts on worker flows between the regulatory and private sector resulting from the revolving door. We find strong countercyclical net...
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Bank balance sheet lending is commonly viewed as the predominant form of lending. We document and study two margins of … document the limits of the shadow bank substitution margin: shadow banks substitute for traditional—deposit-taking—banks in … quantitative consequences of several policies on lending volume and pricing, bank stability, and the distribution of consumer …
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We study the recent episode of bank failures and provide simple facts to better understand who acquires failed banks … the allocation of failed banks to potential acquirers. First, a geographically proximate bank is significantly more likely … to acquire a failed bank: only 15% of acquirers do not have branches within the state. Sales are more local in regions …
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the equilibrium pro-industry tilt in the arbitration pool that arises because of arbitrator competition. Selecting … system. Forty percent of this effect arises because the pool of arbitrators skews pro-industry due to competition. Even an …
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We construct a novel database containing the universe of financial advisers in the United States from 2005 to 2015, representing approximately 10% of employment of the finance and insurance sector. We provide the first large-scale study that documents the economy-wide extent of misconduct among...
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Yes, it did. We use exogenous variation in banks' incentives to conform to the standards of the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) around regulatory exam dates to trace out the effect of the CRA on lending activity. Our empirical strategy compares lending behavior of banks undergoing CRA exams...
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Is bank capital structure designed to extract deposit subsidies? We address this question by studying capital structure … banks finance themselves primarily with short-term debt and originate long-term loans. However, shadow bank debt is provided … primarily by informed and concentrated lenders. (4) Shadow bank leverage increases substantially with size, and the …
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Shadow bank market share in residential mortgage origination nearly doubled from 2007-2015, with particularly dramatic … regulation accounts for roughly 60% of shadow bank growth, while technology accounts for roughly 30% …
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supervises a given bank for a fixed time period according to a predetermined rotation schedule. We use unique data to examine … loans, more delinquent loans, higher regulatory capital ratios, and lower ROA. There is a higher frequency of bank failures … and problem-bank rates in states with more lenient supervision relative to the federal benchmark. Some states are more …
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