designed to harmonize regulation of financial markets in the European Union. We find that increases in financial integration …

This paper examines whether bank ownership (public versus private, domestic versus foreign) is correlated with bank … bank managers; evidence is found in support of the former hypothesis. In the case of foreign-owned banks, the paper finds …

submitted its report in 2013 and four of its members recorded dissenting notes. This paper examines the changes in regulation in …

Using count data on the number of bank failures in US states during the 1960 to 2006 period, this paper endeavors to … regulation can explain some of the fragility in banking. Assuming that variables are predetermined, lagged values provide … instruments to absorb potential endogeneity between the number of bank failures and economic and regulatory conditions. Results …

remain. This paper examines whether stricter regulation of incentive compensation is the missing piece needed to reduce risk … to acceptable levels. Unfortunately, this review of the literatures on the relationship of risk to bank chief operating … officer and bank employee compensation suggest both have some potential but that significant concerns remain in both cases. At …

The roles of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have become increasingly controversial in the modern world of residential …

, a bank is able to reduce the cost of debt by splitting it into a junior and a senior tranche, sold to institutional and …