This paper identifies how bank branching benefited local economies during the Great Depression. Using archival data and … narrative evidence, I show how Bank of America's branch network in 1930s California created an internal capital market to … competing banking offices. The bank's presence caused smaller city property value contractions and stronger recoveries through …

This paper provides the first comprehensive econometric analysis of the causes of bank distress during the Depression …. We assemble bank-level data for virtually all Fed member banks, and combine those data with county-level, state … bank failure. We construct a model of bank survival duration using these fundamental determinants of bank failure as …

We test three hypotheses regarding changes in supervisory toughness' and their effects on bank lending. The data …, affected bank lending. However, all of the measured effects are small, with 1% or less of loans receiving harsher or easier … classification, about 3% of banks receiving better or worse CAMEL ratings, and bank lending being changed by 1% or less of assets …

This paper investigates the impact on bank stock prices of emerging market currency crises and bailouts. The stock … events in countries experiencing a crisis. The paper uses the impact of the LTCM crisis on bank stock prices to put the …

offered by a very large bank. This unpriced credit enhancement helps to explain the preference revealed by very large U … banks have been more eager than small banks to offer mutual funds and why bank mutual funds could be priced to grow at a … time when bank deposits were being priced to shrink …

the effect of a state's interstate banking regulation on the level and structure of bank CEO compensation. Using panel …

of creating an oligopoly. We assembled a data set that compares bank failures, lending rates, interest paid on deposits …

evaluating policy options. There are three parts. The first documents how increased competition and financial innovation made …