Using data for Mississippi, this paper revisits Burkey and Simkins' (2004) work on factors determining the number of payday lenders and banks. With data at two levels of geographic aggregation, the paper discovers whether empirical results are robust and allows for uncertainty in geographic...

This paper investigates whether minorities always benefit from financial inclusion. We show that the Freedman's Savings Bank, established in 1865 after the Civil War, collected deposits from recently freed enslaved people through an intensive marketing campaign based on coercive language and...

This study investigates the influence of background diversity of bank board members on performance and risk. Using data from Indonesian banks from 2001 to 2011 covering 4200 individual year observations and 21 ethnic groups, we estimate the degree of diversity by considering various aspects...

Minority-owned banks have a mission to promote economic well-being in their communities. In particular, specialization in lending based on a central mechanism of shared-minority identity can yield an advantage in serving community needs through times of financial and economic crises. To test...

Minority-owned banks have a mission to promote economic wellbeing in their communities. In particular, specialization in lending based on a central mechanism of shared-minority-identity can yield an advantage in serving community needs through times of financial and economic crises. To test this...

Does the banking structure of a local economy matter for local economic outcomes? Using a discontinuity in the application of bank antitrust rules, I inspect how changes in bank concentration impacts local labor market outcomes. A rise in county-level deposit-HHI of 142 points leads to a rise in...

Bank accounts are critical for participation in the modern economy. However, these accounts frequently require maintenance fees and incur overdraft charges. We assess whether minimum account balances to avoid fees, account maintenance fee amounts, and non-sufficient funds charges are...

Low-income and Black households are less likely to visit bank branches than high-income and White households, despite the former two groups appearing to rely more on branches as means of bank participation. We assess whether unequal branch access can explain that disparity. We propose a measure...

Vor dem Hintergrund der für die Kreditinstitute voraussichtlich zum1.11.2007 anzuwendenden europäischen Richtlinie über Märkte in Finanzinstrumenten sowie ihrer entsprechenden Durchführungsbestimmungen stellt sich die Frage, welche Anforderungen für die Anlageberatung der...

Informed capital is a crucial ingredient to a well-functioning market for start-upfinance, especially in times of difficult market conditions. For bank-basedsystems, the question regarding which investors actually supply informed capitalhas not yet been answered. To fill this gap, we conduct a...