In this paper, we consider the costs and benefits of transactions privacy. In the environment we consider, privacy is the concealment of potentially useful information, but concealment also potentially bestows benefits. In some versions of the environment, the standard Coasian logic applies: given an unambiguous initial assignment of rights and sufficient flexibility in contracting, efficiency ...

We provide a model of the impact of bank mergers on loan competition, individual reserve management and aggregate liquidity risk. Banks hold reserves against liquidity shocks, refinance in the interbank market and compete in a differentiated loan market. A merger creates an internal money market that induces financial cost advantages and may increase reserve holdings. We assess the liquidity ri...

This paper studies the economic impact of the current global economic downturn on the household sector. Household budgets can be negatively affected by declines in nominal wages and increases in unemployment. We empirically test this effect for the Czech economy. As a result of the lack of individual data on the Czech household finances, micro data are simulated. Our analysis clearly points out...

At the beginning of the transition, advice to Central European countries with respect to how to set up their ®nancial systems was based on models used in western economies. This paper analyzes the experiences to set up a ®nancial system in Central Europe. The experience in the ®rst transition years (1990±1996) with ®nancial system architecture shows that changes are slow but that the Central Eu...

This paper proposes a model in which bank runs are closely related to the state of the business cycle. The benchmark model shows that, in a market economy, there are welfare losses due to the existence of bank runs. Extensions of the model explore the welfare effects of various government policies. The results suggest that an interest-cap deposit insurance scheme is an efficient policy to preve...

a stochastic frontier cost function indicates that the annual cost of complying with the anti-redlining Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) is $171,000 per thrift institution, roughly 2.3 percent of variable costs. But compliance cost is significantly less than the estimated 21 percent cost inefficiency. Based on published estimates of the incremental number of mortgage loans induced by CRA, the m...

Yes, size actually matters. This paper models the strategic interaction between banks and the government when bailouts are possible. I analyze how imperfect common knowledge about the government’s bailout policy affects the ex-ante leverage choice for each bank. Large banks, by internalizing the effect of their size on the likelihood of being bailed out, are willing to take more leverage. In eq...

This paper investigates whether a bank regulator should terminate problem banks promptly or exercise forbearance. We construct a dynamic model economy in which entrepreneurs pledge collateral, borrow from banks, and invest in long-term projects. We assume that collateral value has aggregate risk over time, that in any period entrepreneurs can abscond with the projects but losing the collateral,...

Abstract We study U.S. banks’ payout policy in 2007–2008. benchmark these payouts against before the crisis, measure stock price reactions to announcements of dividend changes, and analyze changes relation between growth future performance. Further, we examine cross-sectional variation gauge possible motives underlying decisions do not find that banks have a higher willingness take risk or ince...

This study examined the achievement of organizational goals by deposit money banks following period banking sector reform. Annual time series data from industry and Nigerian economy for 1990 to 2020 were used implement a simplified version modified Pantula Principle (an improved cointegrating technique). Three sets reforms bank performance measures, including bank-specific, industry-specific, m...