The Great Financial Crisis shows that bank failure in the United States, while rare, is a concern during uncertain times. Our interest is in the ability to predict future failures at the start of a crisis, when the recent past has few events on which to base our inferences. We show that...

Management quality is known to influence depository institution performance, but less understood are the characteristics of managers that influence performance. We empirically examine how the political ideology of a credit union’s CEO influenced decision making and performance during the...