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Multibank holding company organizational structure and performance
A study of how quantitative measures of the organizational centralization of 62 multibank holding companies relate to holding company profitability.
Working Paper
Holding company organizational form and efficiency
An exploration of the impact of multibank holding company organizational centralization on subsidiary bank efficiency, using survey data on holding company structure and a profit-function approach.
Working Paper
Rival stock price reactions to large BHC acquisition announcements: evidence of linked oligopoly
An examination of whether multimarket contacts among geographically diversified bank holding companies adversely affect competition.
Conference Paper
The relationship between organizational form and performance: the case of foreign securities subsidiaries of U.S. banking organizations
Debate about the effects of permitting U.S. commercial banks to expand their range of activities has intensified in recent years. Some observers worry that banks with access to a federal safety net have strong incentives to use new opportunities to take greater risks and increase their likelihood of failure at possible cost to the FDIC and taxpayers. Others fear that the safety net might give banks a competitive advantage relative to nonbank rivals. A key element of this debate is whether a holding company structure does a significantly better job of mitigating these potential problems than ...
Journal Article
Bank holding company voluntary nonbanking asset divestitures
An examination of nonbanking asset divestitures, with an analysis of financial effects on the holding company, based on a study of 42 voluntary nonbank asset sales.
Journal Article
Operational policies of multibank holding companies
Using a 1979 survey of the organizational structure of 65 bank holding companies in 12 states, the author investigates the relationship between holding company structure and the performance of bank subsidiaries.
Journal Article
The financial distress in American farming
An analysis of the uneven distribution of problem debt among the nation' s farmers, a discussion of the effect of this debt on agricultural banks, and an estimate of the probable impact of farm debt problems on the nation.
Journal Article
Performance of Ohio's independent banks
An analysis of independent bank performance from 1979-81 in meeting the challenge posed by economic, regulatory, and technological changes in the commercial banking marketplace.
Journal Article
Commercial lending of Ohio's S&Ls
An examination of the extent to which savings and loan associations in Ohio have chosen to exercise their expanded commercial lending powers in the 1980s, and an investigation of the impacts of this decision on their performance.