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A Quality and Risk-Adjusted Cost Function for Banks: Evidence on the "Too-Big-To-Fail" Doctrine 0 0 3 3 14 29 111 503
A positive analysis of bank closure 0 0 0 0 18 35 62 223
A positive analysis of bank closure 0 0 0 0 3 12 48 376
A quality and risk-adjusted cost function for banks: evidence on the " too-big-to-fail" doctrine 0 0 2 2 4 15 51 375
A testing strategy for expense preference behavior 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 142
Accounting for the demand for financial capital and risk-taking in bank cost functions 0 0 2 2 1 3 18 174
An analysis of the effect of ownership form on technology: stock versus mutual savings and loan associations 0 0 0 0 4 10 19 158
Applying efficiency measurement techniques to central banks 6 15 56 327 18 52 182 797
Are All Scale Economies in Banking Elusive or Illusive: Evidence Obtained by Incorporating Capital Structure and Risk Taking into Models of Bank Production 3 6 23 343 5 12 70 796
Are Scale Economies in Banking Elusive or Illusive? 2 2 13 211 5 10 29 629
Are production economies a motive for mutual to stock conversions in the savings and loan industry? 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 169
Are scale economies in banking elusive or illusive? Evidence obtained by incorporating capital structure and risk-taking into models of bank production 4 10 26 338 7 18 60 904
Bank Managers' Objectives 0 0 0 0 1 4 11 142
Bank capitalization and cost: evidence of scale economies in risk management and signaling 6 22 74 308 21 63 257 1,053
Bank managers' objectives 0 0 1 1 1 3 23 268
Checking Accounts and Bank Monitoring 1 5 14 133 6 24 85 548
Checking accounts and bank monitoring 0 2 12 137 6 16 72 679
Checking accounts and bank monitoring 1 3 14 100 15 43 111 633
Competitive effects of Basel II on U.S. bank credit card lending 4 10 41 59 15 38 132 183
Consumer Behavior and the Stickiness of Credit Card Interest Rates 0 0 6 6 19 84 328 1,606
Consumer Behavior and the Stickiness of CreditCard Interest Rates 0 0 2 2 3 10 43 240
Consumer Behavior and the Stickiness of CreditCard Interest Rates 0 0 0 0 8 37 119 441
Consumer behavior and the stickiness of credit card interest rates 0 0 0 0 8 16 166 853
Credit card rate stickiness in a screening model of consumer credit 0 0 0 0 1 5 13 402
Credit card rates and consumer search 0 0 1 1 4 12 24 832
Debt covenants and renegotiation 0 0 3 3 13 36 154 1,644
Debt covenants and renegotiation 0 0 4 4 24 93 224 1,696
Deposits and Relationship Lending Review of Financial Studies 1 5 13 224 9 18 47 490
Deposits and relationship lending 1 13 49 428 11 29 113 1,061
Deposits and relationship lending 1 1 16 155 3 10 45 458
Do Bankers Sacrifice Value to Build Empires? Managerial Incentives, Industry Consolidation and Financial Performance 0 3 9 288 5 21 48 742
Do Bankers Sacrifice Value to Build Empires? Managerial Incentives, Industry Consolidation, and Financial Performance 2 6 15 120 3 22 56 351
Do bankers sacrifice value to build empires? managerial incentives, industry consolidation, and financial performance 1 4 12 172 4 14 46 433
Efficiency and productivity change in the U.S. commercial banking industry: a comparison of the 1980s and 1990s 4 14 44 488 12 31 104 1,220
Efficiency in the Savings and Loan Industry 0 0 1 1 7 15 72 436
Efficiency in the savings and loan industry 0 0 0 0 2 5 27 391
Efficiency of Banks in the Third Federal Reserve District 3 8 21 233 11 28 93 560
Efficiency of Banks in the Third Federal Reserve District 0 0 2 2 1 8 28 240
Efficiency of Banks in the Third Federal Reserve District 0 0 0 0 2 10 24 120
Efficiency of banks in the Third Federal Reserve District 0 0 0 0 4 16 39 180
Efficiency of banks in the Third Federal Reserve District: a study of bank efficiency taking into account risk-preferences 0 0 0 0 1 3 11 146
Efficient banking under interstate branching 1 6 31 337 6 17 70 1,292
Evidence on the Objectives of Bank Managers 0 0 0 0 2 3 12 70
Evidence on the Objectives of Bank Managers 0 1 11 89 7 12 65 336
Evidence on the Objectives of Bank Managers 0 0 0 0 7 19 50 161
Expense preference and the Fed revisited 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 44
Explaining the Dramatic Changes in Performance of U.S. Banks: Technological Change, Deregulation and Dynamic Changes in Competition 4 11 35 380 9 28 84 757
Explaining the dramatic changes in performance of U.S. banks: technological change, deregulation, and dynamic changes in competition 6 12 36 442 14 29 98 975
Financial contracts and the legal treatment of informed investors 1 3 3 108 5 10 24 623
Financial intermediation as vertical integration 0 0 0 0 2 3 7 133
Further evidence concerning expense preference and the Fed 0 0 0 0 1 1 4 53
Inside the Black Box: What Explains Differences in the Efficiencies of Financial Institutions? 15 49 174 1,079 24 88 323 2,206
Inside the black box: what explains differences in the efficiencies of financial institutions? 5 17 62 621 10 38 157 1,601
Inside the black box: what explains differences in the efficiencies of financial institutions? 5 20 64 532 17 45 158 1,356
Intermediation and vertical integration 0 1 8 256 4 8 29 697
Measuring efficiency at U.S. banks: accounting for heterogeneity is important 5 11 33 220 11 28 99 558
Multiple-market contact in an incomplete-information model with imperfectly correlated cost 0 0 0 0 1 3 12 72
On the Profitability and Cost of Relationship Lending 2 9 27 316 8 27 78 724
On the profitability and cost of relationship lending 1 5 19 238 3 11 51 645
Optimal Financial Contracts for Large Investors: The Role of Lender Liability 0 3 6 84 2 13 40 350
Optimal financial contracts for large investors: the role of lender liability 3 9 28 254 14 44 165 955
Perfectual signaling with imperfectly correlated costs 0 0 0 0 1 6 11 68
Perpetual signaling with imperfectly correlated costs 0 0 0 0 1 5 11 64
Potential competitive effects on U.S. bank credit card lending from the proposed bifurcated application of Basel II 2 7 22 72 20 48 132 316
Recovering Risky Technologies Using The Almost Ideal Demand System: An Application To U.S. Banking 1 2 5 81 2 5 17 337
Recovering Risky Technologies Using the Almost Ideal Demand System: An Application to U.S. Banking 0 1 5 72 1 7 15 234
Recovering Technologies that Account for Generalized Managerial Preferences: An Application to Non-Risk-Neutral Banks 0 0 1 1 12 36 84 298
Recovering risky technologies using the almost ideal demand system: an application to U.S. banking 0 0 7 123 2 3 29 446
Recovering risky technologies using the almost ideal demand system: an application to U.S. banking 1 2 8 122 4 9 36 489
Recovering technologies that account for generalized managerial preferences: an application to non-risk neutral banks 0 0 1 1 4 13 34 94
Safety in numbers? Geographic diversification and bank insolvency risk 6 14 36 154 26 47 118 625
Search, switching costs, and the stickiness of credit card interest rates 0 0 0 0 1 2 11 403
Switching costs and adverse selection in the market for credit cards: new evidence 4 10 54 215 11 36 167 568
Testing for expense preference behavior using cost data 0 0 0 0 1 1 6 146
Testing for expense preference behavior: mutual versus stock savings and loans 0 0 1 1 3 14 54 265
The Dollars and Sense of Bank Consolidation 4 9 46 396 15 48 181 1,152
The dollars and sense of bank consolidation 1 5 17 329 9 18 67 1,057
Traditional and nontraditional banking: an information-theoretic approach 0 0 1 1 6 16 79 413
Transactions accounts and loan monitoring 4 12 30 125 17 43 193 569
Transactions accounts and loan monitoring 2 8 36 75 13 41 173 304
Viability in multiproduct industries 0 0 0 0 1 2 2 38
What Explains the Dramatic Changes in Cost and Profit Performance of the U.S. Banking Industry? 0 2 11 297 4 12 37 695
What explains the dramatic changes in cost and profit performance of the U.S. banking industry? 3 9 27 177 7 19 54 370
What explains the dramatic changes in cost and profit performance of the U.S. banking industry? 1 3 9 355 6 8 32 815
When do regulators close banks? When should they? 0 0 0 0 2 5 22 181
When do regulators close banks? When should they? 0 0 0 0 2 4 12 127
When does the prime rate change? 0 0 3 3 57 180 732 2,460
Who changes the prime rate? 0 0 0 0 5 8 18 610
Why are credit card rates sticky? 0 0 0 0 1 6 23 273
Total Working Papers 117 370 1,336 11,647 683 1,982 7,047 50,319


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A Multiproduct Cost Study of Savings and Loans 1 2 7 38 9 16 50 138
A Positive Analysis of Bank Closure 1 2 15 119 4 9 60 341
A study of bank efficiency taking into account risk-preferences 3 22 94 316 12 46 184 580
Agency costs among savings and loans 1 9 16 43 4 17 37 109
Are scale economies in banking elusive or illusive? evidence obtained by incorporating capital structure and risk-taking into models of bank production 0 0 0 0 0 2 19 180
Are scale economies in banking elusive or illusive?: Evidence obtained by incorporating capital structure and risk-taking into models of bank production 1 1 4 43 2 5 19 142
Bank Capitalization And Cost: Evidence Of Scale Economies In Risk Management And Signaling 2 5 13 232 9 25 87 953
Banking and commerce: a dangerous liaison? 0 0 0 0 0 2 18 133
Banking industry's consolidation: what's a small business to do? 0 0 12 320 5 16 63 1,070
Borrower and Neighborhood Racial and Income Characteristics and Financial Institution Mortgage Application Screening: Comments 0 0 0 0 1 6 13 57
Challenges and opportunities in a global economy: perspectives on outsourcing, exchange rates, and free trade: a summary of the 2004 Philadelphia Fed Policy Forum 0 0 1 1 3 16 52 130
Changes in the use of electronic means of payment 0 1 1 74 1 3 3 167
Changes in the use of electronic means of payment: 1995-2001 2 2 8 53 3 7 19 125
Changes in the use of electronic means of payment: 1995-2004 0 2 10 15 1 7 28 39
Consumer Behavior and the Stickiness of Credit-Card Interest Rates 0 8 45 447 7 28 130 1,056
Credit card rates and consumer search 0 3 10 92 2 9 29 179
Credit scoring and securitization of small business loans 3 7 30 325 5 16 71 658
Crises, contagion, and coordination: a summary of the 2002 Philadelphia Fed Policy Forum 0 0 1 6 2 7 17 79
Curing our ailing deposit-insurance system 0 0 0 0 0 1 6 102
Debt covenants and renegotiation 7 31 75 214 23 76 180 486
Deposits and Relationship Lending 0 0 2 2 4 9 43 359
Discussants' comments on Berg. and McAllister and McManus 0 0 2 9 0 1 8 37
Do bankers sacrifice value to build empires? Managerial incentives, industry consolidation, and financial performance 1 3 4 36 3 8 24 119
Efficiency in the savings and loan industry 1 4 29 141 3 13 77 377
Efficient banking under interstate branching 0 0 0 0 1 5 17 228
Efficient production of financial services: scale and scope economies 0 0 1 1 14 32 100 1,099
Erratum to "Explaining the dramatic changes in performance of US banks: Technological change, deregulation, and dynamic changes in competition" [J. Fin. Intermed. 12 (2003) 57-95] 0 0 1 12 1 3 5 53
Evidence on the objectives of bank managers 0 0 0 0 2 5 20 124
Explaining the dramatic changes in performance of US banks: technological change, deregulation, and dynamic changes in competition 1 3 16 96 2 10 39 277
Fiscal imbalance: problems, solutions, and implications 1 2 8 18 2 7 25 43
Further Evidence Concerning Expense Preference and the Fed 1 1 1 9 2 3 4 76
Going, going, gone: setting prices with auctions 0 0 1 1 2 4 22 248
How efficient are Third District banks? 0 0 1 1 2 6 27 173
Inside the black box: What explains differences in the efficiencies of financial institutions? 4 13 48 235 11 36 144 709
Intermediation and Vertical Integration 0 0 0 0 2 5 27 292
Intermediation and vertical integration 0 0 0 0 2 8 22 254
Is the personal bankruptcy system bankrupt? 0 1 5 68 3 7 26 326
Lender Liability and Large Investors 0 0 2 31 1 3 8 114
Managing the recovery in uncertain times: a summary of the 2003 Philadelphia Fed Policy Forum 0 0 0 6 1 5 10 41
Multiple Market Contact between Savings and Loans: A Note 0 0 4 17 0 1 15 68
On the profitability and cost of relationship lending 1 4 16 61 3 11 39 166
Owners versus managers: who controls the bank? 0 0 0 0 4 14 35 200
Perpetual Signalling with Imperfectly Correlated Costs 0 0 0 5 0 3 6 38
Recovering banking technologies when managers are not risk-neutral 0 0 0 0 0 3 11 59
Repealing Glass-Steagall: the past points the way to the future 3 9 23 159 12 29 90 1,901
Retail credit risk management and measurement: An introduction to the special issue 14 39 135 473 29 86 271 858
Safety in numbers? Geographic diversification and bank insolvency risk 0 0 0 0 1 12 28 117
Some thoughts on the evolution of the banking system and the process of financial intermediation 0 2 9 10 5 14 35 40
Switching costs and adverse selection in the market for credit cards: New evidence 0 1 17 33 1 6 47 102
Testing for Expense Preference Behavior: Mutual versus Stock Savings and Loans 1 4 11 49 9 27 84 278
The Philadelphia Fed Policy Forum: summary of the 2001 Policy Forum and announcement of the 2002 Policy Forum 0 0 1 11 4 8 14 83
The changing nature of the payments system: should new players mean new rules? 0 2 9 202 2 10 36 549
The costs of traditional and nontraditional banking 0 0 0 0 0 2 8 76
The dollars and sense of bank consolidation 2 3 8 49 4 9 36 165
The effects of multimarket contact on savings and loan behavior 0 0 1 1 0 1 6 165
There's more than one way to sell a security: the Treasury's auction experiment 0 0 0 1 2 5 19 164
Traditional and nontraditional banking: An information-theoretic approach 6 20 52 133 23 61 152 351
Viability in multiproduct industries 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 4
What's the point of credit scoring? 8 19 55 1,038 14 46 135 2,909
When does the prime rate change? 2 8 31 145 19 65 323 1,237
Why Are Credit Card Rates Sticky? 0 0 0 0 2 12 61 354
Total Journal Articles 67 233 835 5,392 285 909 3,185 21,557


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