luminaries that includes Timothy Geithner, Henry Paulson, Robert Rubin, Ben Bernanke, and Alan Greenspan. In Guardians of Finance …

Finance and growth emerged as a distinct field of economics during the last three decades as economists integrated the … fields of finance and economic growth and then explored the ramifications of the functioning of financial systems on economic …

effect varies across banking crises, market crises, and normal times that occurred in the U.S. over the past quarter century … all times (during banking crises, market crises, and normal times). Second, capital enhances the performance of medium and … large banks primarily during banking crises. Additional tests explore channels through which capital generates the …