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Conference Paper
Testing the quiet life of U.S. banks with adjusted Lerner indices
Journal Article
Atlanta Fed hosts conference on access to banking in the Americas
The Americas Center of the Atlanta Fed recently held a conference in Miami to spur dialogue and collaboration among institutions and nonprofit groups that want to bring more people into the mainstream banking system.
Journal Article
Economic perspective on the political history of the Second Bank of the United States
The Second Bank of the United States was an institution of first-rank importance, both politically and economically, during the early nineteenth century. This article uses recent contributions to theory on industrial organization and monetary economics to argue tentatively that conflict between debtors and creditors may have played a larger role in the bank's fortunes than previously thought.
Journal Article
United States banks and foreign trade financing
Working Paper
Market structure and competition among retail depository institutions
We assess the competitive impact that single-market banks and thrift institutions have on multi-market banks (and vice-versa) in 1,884 non- MSA markets. We estimate a model of equilibrium market structure which endogenizes entry for three types: multi-market banks, single-market banks, and thrift institutions. Observed market structures and the solution to an entry-type game identify the parameters of a latent (unobserved) profit function. We find significant evidence of product differentiation-- particularly in the case of thrifts. Furthermore, product differentiation appears to depend upon ...
Journal Article
Nonbank thrift institutions in 1977 and 1978
Speech
Central banking and bank supervision in the United States
a speech at the Allied Social Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois
Journal Article
On the size distribution of banks