Essays on Commercial Banking: Survival, Performance, and Heterogeneous Technologies

In the first chapter, we focus on explaining the U.S. commercial banking failures during the recent financial crisis. We employ the semi-parametric mixture hazard model (MHM) with both continuous and discrete time specifications to first, distinguish between troubled and healthy banks and second, to...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Almanidis, Pavlos
Other Authors: Robin C. Sickles
Format: Others
Language:English
Published: 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1911/64371