This dissertation consists of four self-contained chapters connected to the financial crisis and its aftermath. The first chapter investigates the effect of higher capital requirements …
This dissertation analyzes whether the organizational scope of commercial banks affects their risk taking behavior.The first chapter examines how commercial bank's risk taking behavior changes …
This dissertation consists of two essays studying how the exposure of banks to real estate declines impacted the availability of credit and local employment growth …
This dissertation offers insight into the effect of regulation on various aspects of growth and development. Exploiting plausibly exogenous variation generated by deregulatory events, I …