The Selected Works of George J. Benston, Volume 1: Banking and Financial Services

by James D. Rosenfeld, James Rosenfeld

Overview

George J. Benston, professor of Finance, Accounting, and Economics at Emory University's Goizueta Business School, died unexpectedly in January 2008. He was an impassioned advocate for corporate integrity and a unique scholar; his research interests were as broad as those of any recent academician. His colleagues have selected and organized his most important papers into two volumes. This first volume consists of his research in the banking and financial services industry. The editor has selected a broad range of papers from each of the major areas that are representative of Benston's work in that particular field. James D. Rosenfeld, Professor of Finance, Accounting, and Economics, Goizueta Business School, Emory University, serves as the editor and is assisted by an editorial advisory board including George Kaufman, Greg Waymire, Bob Eisenbeis, Larry Wall, Rashad Abdel-Kalik, and Lemma Senbet.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780195389012
Publisher:	Oxford University Press, USA
Publication date:	05/13/2010
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	376
Product dimensions:	6.40(w) x 9.30(h) x 1.30(d)

About the Author

James Rosenfeld is an Associate Professor of Finance. Prior to joining the Goizueta Business School faculty, Jim taught at the Graduate Business School at the University of Georgia. He received his Ph.D. from New York University, his M.B.A. from Columbia University, and B.A. from the Wharton Business School at the University of Pennsylvania. He recently completed two studies on the usage of trust preferred securities by banks and industrial corporations. He currently is investigating the price performance of sponsored spin-offs, a divestiture strategy that is gaining wide-spread popularity. Jim's papers have been published in the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Journal of Financial Research, Managerial and Decision Economics, The Accounting Review, Financial Management and the Journal of Money Credit and Banking.

Table of Contents

Forward by Allan Meltzer
Introduction by James Rosenfeld

I VOLUME I

Banking and Financial Services

1. Interest Payments on Demand Deposits and Bank Investment Behavior
Journal of Political Economy

2. Branch Banking and Economies of Scale
Journal of Finance

3. Bank Examiners' Evaluation of Credit: An Analysis of the Usefulness of Substandard Loan Data with John Tepper Marlin
The Journal of Money, Credit and Banking

4. Scale Economies in Banking: A Restructuring and Reassessment with Gerald A. Hanweck and David B. Humphrey
Journal of Money, Credit and Banking

5. Regulating Bank Safety and Performance with George G. Kaufman
Restructuring the Financial System

6. The Federal 'Safety Net' and the Repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act's Separation of Commercial and Investment Banking
Journal of Financial Services Research

7. The Intellectual History of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Improvement Act of 1991
with George G. Kaufman
Reforming Financial Institutions and Markets in the United States

8. Safety Nets and Moral Hazard in Banking
Financial Stability in a Changing Environment

9. Is the Banking and Payments System Fragile with George G. Kaufman
Journal of Financial Services Research

10. Motivations for Bank Mergers and Acquisitions: Enhancing the Deposit Insurance Put Option versus Earnings Diversification with Curt Hunter and Larry Wall
Journal of Money, Credit and Banking

11. Universal Banking
Journal of Economic Perspectives

12. Discrimination in Mortgage Lending: Why HMDA and CRA Should be Repealed
Journal of Retail Banking Services

13. Deposit Insurance Reform in the FDIC Improvement Act: The Experience to date with George Kaufman
Economic Perspectives

14. Bank Capital Structure, Regulatory Capital and Securities' Innovations with Jim Rosenfeld, Paul Irvine and Joseph Sinkey.
Journal of Money, Credit and Banking.