This exploratory note empirically investigates determinants of the annual percentage rate of return on commercial bank assets over the period 1959-1998. The findings indicate that this rate of return has been an increasing function of the average annual interest rate yield on three-year U.S....

This empirical note studies the impact of the net budget deficits of all levels of government in the U.S. combined on ten-year Treasury notes for the study period 1955-1984. It is found that this total net budget deficit acted to elevate the yield on ten-year Treasury notes.