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A Quality and Risk-Adjusted Cost Function for Banks: Evidence on the "Too-Big-To-Fail" Doctrine 0 0 0 3 8 24 106 637
A positive analysis of bank closure 0 0 0 0 2 8 40 287
A positive analysis of bank closure 0 0 0 0 2 16 87 484
A quality and risk-adjusted cost function for banks: evidence on the " too-big-to-fail" doctrine 0 0 0 2 5 17 58 446
A testing strategy for expense preference behavior 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 143
Accounting for the demand for financial capital and risk-taking in bank cost functions 0 0 0 2 0 6 23 206
An analysis of the effect of ownership form on technology: stock versus mutual savings and loan associations 0 0 0 0 0 1 10 170
Applying efficiency measurement techniques to central banks 4 12 47 390 23 47 161 1,000
Are All Scale Economies in Banking Elusive or Illusive: Evidence Obtained by Incorporating Capital Structure and Risk Taking into Models of Bank Production 0 2 18 365 10 19 71 883
Are Scale Economies in Banking Elusive or Illusive? 0 2 6 218 1 6 37 674
Are production economies a motive for mutual to stock conversions in the savings and loan industry? 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 169
Are scale economies in banking elusive or illusive? Evidence obtained by incorporating capital structure and risk-taking into models of bank production 0 4 12 353 1 8 33 947
Bank Managers' Objectives 0 0 0 0 4 8 18 161
Bank capitalization and cost: evidence of scale economies in risk management and signaling 4 11 52 375 17 28 182 1,334
Bank managers' objectives 0 0 0 1 2 4 13 282
Central bank institutional structure and effective central banking: cross-country empirical evidence 6 11 30 45 8 22 61 86
Central bank institutional structure and effective central banking: cross-country empirical evidence 3 9 53 53 7 21 80 80
Checking Accounts and Bank Monitoring 0 3 13 150 11 43 138 712
Checking accounts and bank monitoring 1 1 8 146 5 16 55 741
Checking accounts and bank monitoring 0 0 4 106 15 29 135 795
Competitive effects of Basel II on U.S. bank credit card lending 2 8 40 113 16 42 149 371
Consumer Behavior and the Stickiness of Credit Card Interest Rates 0 0 0 6 32 93 367 2,054
Consumer Behavior and the Stickiness of CreditCard Interest Rates 0 0 0 2 2 7 38 291
Consumer Behavior and the Stickiness of CreditCard Interest Rates 0 0 0 0 7 26 102 563
Consumer behavior and the stickiness of credit card interest rates 0 0 0 0 5 19 66 946
Core measures of inflation as predictors of total inflation 0 0 10 62 1 4 33 82
Credit card rate stickiness in a screening model of consumer credit 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 408
Credit card rates and consumer search 0 0 0 1 2 9 25 863
Debt covenants and renegotiation 0 0 0 3 6 11 78 1,739
Debt covenants and renegotiation 0 0 0 4 6 11 57 1,768
Deposits and Relationship Lending Review of Financial Studies 1 4 13 239 5 15 56 554
Deposits and relationship lending 7 19 44 480 10 36 103 1,182
Deposits and relationship lending 0 2 9 170 1 7 34 507
Do Bankers Sacrifice Value to Build Empires? Managerial Incentives, Industry Consolidation and Financial Performance 3 6 26 317 12 23 71 829
Do Bankers Sacrifice Value to Build Empires? Managerial Incentives, Industry Consolidation, and Financial Performance 3 6 15 139 7 19 70 437
Do bankers sacrifice value to build empires? managerial incentives, industry consolidation, and financial performance 1 1 8 183 2 10 35 480
Efficiency and productivity change in the U.S. commercial banking industry: a comparison of the 1980s and 1990s 2 9 48 544 6 19 83 1,321
Efficiency in banking: theory, practice, and evidence 8 29 116 210 12 45 216 337
Efficiency in the Savings and Loan Industry 0 0 0 1 7 15 48 501
Efficiency in the savings and loan industry 0 0 0 0 0 2 11 414
Efficiency of Banks in the Third Federal Reserve District 2 7 24 260 8 21 119 705
Efficiency of Banks in the Third Federal Reserve District 0 0 0 2 1 2 16 261
Efficiency of Banks in the Third Federal Reserve District 0 0 0 0 1 1 9 133
Efficiency of banks in the Third Federal Reserve District 0 0 0 0 7 11 38 231
Efficiency of banks in the Third Federal Reserve District: a study of bank efficiency taking into account risk-preferences 0 0 0 0 1 2 11 159
Efficient banking under interstate branching 2 4 23 370 3 9 38 1,346
Evidence on the Objectives of Bank Managers 0 0 0 0 0 1 7 82
Evidence on the Objectives of Bank Managers 2 2 11 102 5 16 68 421
Evidence on the Objectives of Bank Managers 0 0 0 0 4 10 60 240
Expense preference and the Fed revisited 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 45
Explaining the Dramatic Changes in Performance of U.S. Banks: Technological Change, Deregulation and Dynamic Changes in Competition 3 7 41 438 7 25 97 889
Explaining the dramatic changes in performance of U.S. banks: technological change, deregulation, and dynamic changes in competition 2 6 27 480 3 12 63 1,078
Financial contracts and the legal treatment of informed investors 0 0 2 110 0 3 14 641
Financial intermediation as vertical integration 0 0 0 0 1 2 4 137
Further evidence concerning expense preference and the Fed 0 0 0 0 1 2 3 56
Inside the Black Box: What Explains Differences in the Efficiencies of Financial Institutions? 9 30 177 1,288 23 68 342 2,626
Inside the black box: what explains differences in the efficiencies of financial institutions? 11 18 72 707 35 72 225 1,863
Inside the black box: what explains differences in the efficiencies of financial institutions? 3 21 67 612 12 45 158 1,554
Intermediation and vertical integration 2 3 11 268 3 4 23 726
Measuring efficiency at U.S. banks: accounting for heterogeneity is important 1 9 23 253 2 18 65 647
Multiple-market contact in an incomplete-information model with imperfectly correlated cost 0 0 0 0 0 3 7 80
On the Profitability and Cost of Relationship Lending 2 2 27 348 6 17 76 817
On the profitability and cost of relationship lending 2 4 16 259 7 14 55 709
Optimal Financial Contracts for Large Investors: The Role of Lender Liability 1 2 6 92 10 15 44 405
Optimal financial contracts for large investors: the role of lender liability 1 5 16 280 7 27 110 1,117
Optimal industrial structure in banking 4 9 38 67 7 21 86 136
Perfectual signaling with imperfectly correlated costs 0 0 0 0 0 3 23 92
Perpetual signaling with imperfectly correlated costs 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 73
Potential competitive effects on U.S. bank credit card lending from the proposed bifurcated application of Basel II 0 3 16 92 8 26 154 518
Recovering Risky Technologies Using The Almost Ideal Demand System: An Application To U.S. Banking 0 1 5 86 2 3 17 361
Recovering Risky Technologies Using the Almost Ideal Demand System: An Application to U.S. Banking 2 2 4 79 3 6 19 264
Recovering Technologies that Account for Generalized Managerial Preferences: An Application to Non-Risk-Neutral Banks 0 0 0 1 4 8 47 364
Recovering risky technologies using the almost ideal demand system: an application to U.S. banking 1 3 6 129 3 13 38 495
Recovering risky technologies using the almost ideal demand system: an application to U.S. banking 1 2 2 125 2 9 17 512
Recovering technologies that account for generalized managerial preferences: an application to non-risk neutral banks 0 0 0 1 5 31 120 220
Safety in numbers? Geographic diversification and bank insolvency risk 5 7 28 191 10 28 94 744
Search, switching costs, and the stickiness of credit card interest rates 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 406
Switching costs and adverse selection in the market for credit cards: new evidence 2 11 51 276 7 29 138 746
Testing for expense preference behavior using cost data 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 152
Testing for expense preference behavior: mutual versus stock savings and loans 0 0 0 1 7 14 32 305
The Dollars and Sense of Bank Consolidation 4 11 65 474 21 81 320 1,556
The dollars and sense of bank consolidation 1 3 11 342 6 15 47 1,110
Traditional and nontraditional banking: an information-theoretic approach 0 0 0 1 12 32 95 530
Transactions accounts and loan monitoring 3 7 44 179 17 64 239 847
Transactions accounts and loan monitoring 3 7 35 122 15 42 176 514
Viability in multiproduct industries 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 39
What Explains the Dramatic Changes in Cost and Profit Performance of the U.S. Banking Industry? 1 6 25 329 1 13 54 770
What explains the dramatic changes in cost and profit performance of the U.S. banking industry? 0 0 6 187 1 1 17 397
What explains the dramatic changes in cost and profit performance of the U.S. banking industry? 1 1 13 371 1 2 21 844
When do regulators close banks? When should they? 0 0 0 0 1 3 24 213
When do regulators close banks? When should they? 0 0 0 0 2 5 19 147
When does the prime rate change? 0 0 0 3 26 111 533 3,124
Who changes the prime rate? 0 0 0 0 0 4 20 635
Why are credit card rates sticky? 0 0 0 0 1 6 16 295
Total Working Papers 116 332 1,464 13,608 569 1,708 6,991 59,261


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A Multiproduct Cost Study of Savings and Loans 0 1 30 76 3 8 97 272
A Positive Analysis of Bank Closure 2 13 43 165 5 19 65 419
A study of bank efficiency taking into account risk-preferences 15 41 147 492 21 63 268 902
Agency costs among savings and loans 2 4 18 66 3 9 45 169
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 3 5 10 193
Are scale economies in banking elusive or illusive?: Evidence obtained by incorporating capital structure and risk-taking into models of bank production 0 0 7 53 2 7 24 174
Bank Capitalization And Cost: Evidence Of Scale Economies In Risk Management And Signaling 0 0 4 238 2 3 36 1,000
Banking and commerce: a dangerous liaison? 0 0 0 0 0 1 8 148
Banking industry's consolidation: what's a small business to do? 0 1 14 335 3 6 53 1,132
Borrower and Neighborhood Racial and Income Characteristics and Financial Institution Mortgage Application Screening: Comments 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 60
Challenges and opportunities in a global economy: perspectives on outsourcing, exchange rates, and free trade: a summary of the 2004 Philadelphia Fed Policy Forum 2 3 3 4 5 8 25 164
Changes in the use of electronic means of payment 0 0 0 75 0 1 3 171
Changes in the use of electronic means of payment: 1995-2001 1 1 2 56 2 3 8 134
Changes in the use of electronic means of payment: 1995-2004 0 2 11 30 0 7 26 74
Competitive effects of Basel II on US bank credit card lending 1 3 14 14 6 14 58 58
Consumer Behavior and the Stickiness of Credit-Card Interest Rates 0 6 44 503 2 13 90 1,166
Credit card rates and consumer search 3 5 13 110 4 11 27 212
Credit scoring and securitization of small business loans 1 8 23 352 2 10 56 729
Crises, contagion, and coordination: a summary of the 2002 Philadelphia Fed Policy Forum 0 0 0 6 0 3 9 89
Curing our ailing deposit-insurance system 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 103
Debt covenants and renegotiation 9 32 146 379 20 55 279 805
Deposits and Relationship Lending 0 0 0 2 6 11 38 403
Discussants' comments on Berg. and McAllister and McManus 0 0 2 12 2 2 4 43
Do bankers sacrifice value to build empires? Managerial incentives, industry consolidation, and financial performance 3 3 7 48 7 9 18 144
Economic growth and development: perspectives for policy makers 0 0 1 14 0 2 11 36
Efficiency in the savings and loan industry 2 7 31 181 4 11 57 455
Efficient banking under interstate branching 0 0 0 0 0 2 12 244
Efficient production of financial services: scale and scope economies 0 0 0 1 9 25 119 1,246
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 1 2 14 0 1 4 57
Evidence on the objectives of bank managers 0 0 0 0 0 1 12 140
Explaining the dramatic changes in performance of US banks: technological change, deregulation, and dynamic changes in competition 2 4 18 119 2 9 37 330
Financing community development: Learning from the past, looking to the future 0 0 3 11 0 2 9 28
Fiscal imbalance: problems, solutions, and implications 0 2 6 24 0 2 18 65
Further Evidence Concerning Expense Preference and the Fed 0 0 0 9 1 1 3 79
Going, going, gone: setting prices with auctions 0 1 1 2 0 2 10 263
How efficient are Third District banks? 0 2 2 3 0 8 38 223
Innovation and regulation in financial markets: A summary of the 2007 Philadelphia Fed Policy Forum 1 2 26 28 3 7 49 53
Inside the black box: What explains differences in the efficiencies of financial institutions? 5 17 60 305 11 31 171 926
Intermediation and Vertical Integration 0 0 0 0 1 1 14 308
Intermediation and vertical integration 0 0 0 0 5 7 27 284
Introduction 0 0 0 5 0 0 3 34
Introduction: Special Issue on the Banking and Finance Workshop 0 0 2 6 0 2 11 28
Is the personal bankruptcy system bankrupt? 1 1 4 73 2 4 14 345
Lender Liability and Large Investors 0 1 3 34 0 1 5 119
Managing the recovery in uncertain times: a summary of the 2003 Philadelphia Fed Policy Forum 0 0 2 9 0 0 8 51
Measuring efficiency at U.S. banks: Accounting for heterogeneity is important 0 2 5 7 0 4 14 27
Multiple Market Contact between Savings and Loans: A Note 1 1 4 22 1 1 11 82
On the profitability and cost of relationship lending 1 1 5 67 4 7 21 195
Owners versus managers: who controls the bank? 0 0 0 0 6 16 85 304
Perpetual Signalling with Imperfectly Correlated Costs 0 0 4 11 1 1 9 50
Recovering Risky Technologies Using the Almost Ideal Demand System: An Application to U.S. Banking 0 1 2 2 1 4 7 10
Recovering banking technologies when managers are not risk-neutral 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 66
Repealing Glass-Steagall: the past points the way to the future 2 6 61 227 12 21 136 2,072
Retail credit risk management and measurement: An introduction to the special issue 16 35 159 672 40 97 408 1,375
Safety in numbers? Geographic diversification and bank insolvency risk 0 0 0 0 0 2 25 149
Some thoughts on the evolution of the banking system and the process of financial intermediation 0 1 9 23 2 7 32 81
Switching costs and adverse selection in the market for credit cards: New evidence 1 2 7 44 2 5 27 140
Testing for Expense Preference Behavior: Mutual versus Stock Savings and Loans 2 2 14 69 5 11 93 410
The Philadelphia Fed Policy Forum: summary of the 2001 Policy Forum and announcement of the 2002 Policy Forum 0 0 0 11 1 3 9 94
The changing nature of the payments system: should new players mean new rules? 1 2 10 213 3 4 23 578
The costs of traditional and nontraditional banking 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 82
The dollars and sense of bank consolidation 2 2 7 58 7 8 25 196
The effects of multimarket contact on savings and loan behavior 0 0 0 1 1 2 10 176
There's more than one way to sell a security: the Treasury's auction experiment 1 1 1 2 1 1 4 170
Traditional and nontraditional banking: An information-theoretic approach 3 16 63 208 56 131 335 738
Viability in multiproduct industries 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 6
What's the point of credit scoring? 9 18 53 1,109 13 34 137 3,085
When does the prime rate change? 1 8 44 197 3 14 131 1,435
Why Are Credit Card Rates Sticky? 0 0 0 0 1 8 34 405
Total Journal Articles 90 259 1,137 6,798 296 769 3,469 26,004
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