Failed Bank Acquisitions and Lending Activity

Authors

Kevin Jacques, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, Senior Financial EconomistFollow
Peter J. Nigro, Bryant University

Document Type

Article

Comments

Published by Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. in Business Economics, volume 30 issue 3, 1995. Bryant users may access this article here.

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan Ltd.

Abstract

Presents the findings of a study concerning the recycling of assets process to address bank failures in the United States using data from the US Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. Reason for bank failures; Discussion about the recycled assets theory; Disposition of assets at failed banks; Equity capital and assumed assets; Bank lending and loan growth.