Commitments of commercial bank management

Asymmetric Information: the Case of Bank Loan Commitments

This study analyzes common stock return behavior around the announcement date of a bank loan commitment to a firm. The results demonstrate that loan commitments are viewed as positive when the more formal revolving credit agreement is used. Straight lines of credit do not show any significant reaction. Loan commitment announcements are associated with signals transmitted by banks and is an impl...

Determinants of Commercial Bank Automobile Loan Rates

Market concentration and commercial bank loan portfolios

This paper estimates the relationship between banking market concentration and high-risk portfolio strategies at commercial banks. I use the unprecedented changes in the degree of competition in local banking markets that occurred after 1980 to estimate the impact of market competition on the risk profile of commercial bank lending. I find evidence that increasing concentration has been associa...

Surviving Merger Commercial Bank Mergers on Rural

For over 50 years in the middle of the 20’h century we had financial institutions that were bounded geographically as well as by type of product or service. They were insulated from other financial and non-financial institutions by restrictive charters and by regulations designed to limit competition between charters. All of this was in the name of safety and soundness, an outgrowth of the fina...

Measuring Commercial Bank Profitability: Proceed with Caution

The federal tax code creates challenges for comparing the profit rates of different banks on a consistent basis. The earnings of banks that elect to operate under subchapter S of the federal tax code are not subject to federal corporate income tax, but shareholders of these “S-banks” are taxed on their pro rata share of the entire earnings of the bank. The number of banks electing subchapter S ...