Expanded securities underwriting: implications for bank risk and return

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The implications of the Federal Reserve Board's decision in 1987 to expand underwriting privileges of banks on the risk and return of the common stock of commercial banks are investigated. Effects of the same decision on investment banking firms are also examined. Through a factor-analytic event study, it is shown that money center versus regional banks benefit the most from the Federal Reserve Board decision. The study also indicates that investment banks do not suffer significant loss arising from reduced market share and that wealth transfer from investment to commercial banks is low.

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Asset fungibility and equilibrium capital structures

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Studies of a single firm's optimal debt-equity ratio do not take into account the interrelationship of market interest rates and the firm's choices. A general equilibrium model is developed whose cross-sectional distribution of debt-equity ratios is estimated by the firm's asset fungibility. The costs and benefits to shareholders for changing the asset's payoff distribution are taken into account. The variation of interest rates on corporate debt is also examined in relation to the fungibility of the firm's assets.

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Degree of competition in the Japanese securities industry

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The results of a study conducted on Japanese securities industry and its competitiveness by using H-statistics proposed by Panzar and Rosse for the period of 1983-2002 are presented.

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