Journal Article
Navigating the brave new world of bank liquidity
Stackhouse, Julie L.; Vaughan, Mark D. (2003-07)
By traditional measures, liquidity risk for banks is higher today than 10 years ago. But new measures-necessitated by new funding sources-tell another story.
The Regional Economist , Issue Jul , Pages 12-13

Journal Article
Loan quality in the Eighth District: worth a closer look
Vaughan, Mark D.; Stojanovic, Dusan (1996-07)
The Regional Economist , Issue Jul , Pages 12-13

Journal Article
Are district banks losing their profit edge?
Vaughan, Mark D.; Meyer, Andrew P. (1997-04)
After decades of beating out their peers in the return on average assets race, Eighth District banks now trail the pack.
The Regional Economist , Issue Apr , Pages 12-13

Working Paper
Can feedback from the jumbo-CD market improve off-site surveillance of community banks?
Meyer, Andrew P.; Vaughan, Mark D.; Gilbert, R. Alton (2002)
We examine the value of feedback from the jumbo-certificate-of-deposit (CD) market in the off-site surveillance of community banks. Using accounting data, we construct proxies for default premiums on jumbo CDs. Then, we produce rank orderings of community banks -- defined as institutions holding less than $500 million in assets (constant 1999 dollars) -- based on these proxies. Next, we use an econometric surveillance model to generate rank orderings based on the probability of encountering financial distress. Finally, we compare these rank orderings as tools for flagging emerging problems. ...
Supervisory Policy Analysis Working Papers , Paper 2002-08

Working Paper
Can feedback from the jumbo-CD market improve bank surveillance?
Meyer, Andrew P.; Vaughan, Mark D.; Gilbert, R. Alton (2003)
We examine the value of jumbo certificate-of-deposit (CD) signals in bank surveillance. To do so, we first construct proxies for default premiums and deposit runoffs and then rank banks based on these risk proxies. Next, we rank banks based on the output of a logit model typical of the econometric models used in off-site surveillance. Finally, we compare jumbo-CD rankings and surveillance-model rankings as tools for predicting financial distress. Our comparisons include eight out-of-sample test windows during the 1990s. We find that rankings obtained from jumbo-CD data would not have improved ...
Working Papers , Paper 2003-041

Working Paper
Did FDICIA enhance market discipline on community banks? a look at evidence from the jumbo-CD market
King, Thomas B.; Vaughan, Mark D.; Meyer, Andrew P.; Hall, John R. (2002)
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Improvement Act of 1991 (FDICIA) directed the FDIC to resolve bank failures in the least costly manner, shifting more of the failure-resolution burden to jumbo-CD holders. We examine the sensitivity of jumbo-CD yields and runoffs to failure risk before and after FDICIA. We also examine the economic significance of estimated risk sensitivities before and after the Act, looking at the implied impact of risk on bank funding costs and profits. The evidence indicates that yields and runoff were sensitive to risk before and after FDICIA, but that this ...
Supervisory Policy Analysis Working Papers , Paper 2002-04

Journal Article
Bullish on banking: thriving in the information age
Vaughan, Mark D. (1996-01)
The Regional Economist , Issue Jan , Pages 4-9

Working Paper
Dividends, stock repurchases and signaling: evidence from U.S. panel data
Vaughan, Mark D.; Williams, Michael G. (1998)
This paper exploits yearly accounting data from 1977 to 1994 to test the relative signaling power of dividends and net stock repurchases. The specification controls for potential agency cost and asset dissipation effects. Specifically, we regress changes in future income before extraordinary items on changes in dividends, changes in net stock repurchases, and a host of control variables. We also split the sample at 1981 to measure the impact of changes in the relative taxation of distribution methods. For the full twenty-year sample, only dividend changes are correlated with changes in future ...
Supervisory Policy Analysis Working Papers , Paper 1998-01

Journal Article
The role of supervisory screens and econometric models in off-site surveillance
Meyer, Andrew P.; Vaughan, Mark D.; Gilbert, R. Alton (1999-11)
Off-site surveillance involves using financial ratios to identify banks likely to develop safety-and-soundness problems. Bank supervisors use two tools to flag developing problems: supervisory screens and econometric models. Despite the statistical dominance of models, supervisors continue to rely heavily on screens. We use data from the 1980s and 1990s to compare, once again, the performance of the two approaches to off-site surveillance. Our study explicitly addresses supervisors' criticisms of econometric models. In particular, we offer a new econometric model - one designed to forecast ...
Review , Volume 81 , Issue Nov , Pages 31-56

Journal Article
Can feedback from the jumbo CD market improve bank surveillance?
Meyer, Andrew P.; Vaughan, Mark D.; Gilbert, R. Alton (2006-04)
Economic Quarterly , Volume 92 , Issue Spr , Pages 135-175