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FinanceandEconomicsDiscussionSeries
FederalReserveBoard,Washington,D.C.
ISSN1936-2854(Print)
ISSN2767-3898(Online)
TrademarksinBanking
RyuichiroIzumi,AntonisKotidis,PaulE.Soto
2024-044
Pleasecitethispaperas:
Izumi,Ryuichiro,AntonisKotidis,andPaulE.Soto(2024).“TrademarksinBanking,”FinanceandEconomicsDiscussionSeries2024-044.Washington:BoardofGovernorsoftheFederalReserveSystem,
/10.17016/FEDS.2024.044
.
NOTE:StafworkingpapersintheFinanceandEconomicsDiscussionSeries(FEDS)arepreliminarymaterialscirculatedtostimulatediscussionandcriticalcomment.TheanalysisandconclusionssetfortharethoseoftheauthorsanddonotindicateconcurrencebyothermembersoftheresearchstafortheBoardofGovernors.ReferencesinpublicationstotheFinanceandEconomicsDiscussionSeries(otherthanacknowledgement)shouldbeclearedwiththeauthor(s)toprotectthetentativecharacterofthesepapers.
1
TrademarksinBanking*
RyuichiroIzumiAntonisKotidisPaulE.SotoMay23,2024
Abstract
OneinfivebanksintheUnitedStatesshareasimilarname.Thiscanincreasethelikelihoodofconfusionamongcustomersintheeventofanidiosyncraticshocktoasimilarlynamedbank.
Wefindthatbanksthatsharetheirnamewithafailedbankexperienceahalfpercentdropintransactiondepositsrelativetobankswithsimilarcharacteristicsbutdifferentname.Thiseffectdoublesforfailuresthatarecoveredinmedia.Werationalizeourfindingsviaamodeloffinancialcontagionwithoutfundamentallinkages.Ourmodelexplainsthatwhendistinguishingbanksismorecostlyduetosimilartrademarks,depositorsaremorelikelytoconfusetheirbanks’conditionresultinginfinancialcontagion.
Keywords:Trademarks,Banking,BankRuns,BankFailuresJELClassifications:G21;G14;G30
*IzumiisatWesleyanUniversity.KotidisandSotoareattheFederalReserveBoard.WethankTomazCajner,ToddKeister,AndreasLehnertandSkandervandenHeuvelforhelpfulcomments.TheanalysisandconclusionssetforthherearethoseoftheauthorsanddonotindicateconcurrencebyothermembersoftheresearchstaffortheBoardofGovernors.
2
1Introduction
Atrademarkisasign-logo,soundorcolor-usedbyafirmtoidentifyaproductorservice.Unlikeapatent,whichisapropertyinterestheldbytheproprietor,trademarkscreatedistinctiveness.Theyconveyinformationaboutthequalityofaproductorservice,evenwhenqualityisnotobservable.Assuch,theyhelpresolveaninformationasymmetryproblem(e.g.,
Akerlof,
1970)
.Duetotheirabilitytoconveyinformation,thelawprotectstheownersoftrademarksfromtheuseofsimilarmarks.Consumersmayalsobenefitbecauseownersmaybeincentivizedtodeliverahigherlevelofqualityconsistentwiththeoriesoftrademarksastradeableassets(e.g.,
Shapiro,
1982,
Landes
andPosner,
1987,
AghionandHowitt,
1992,
Tirole,
1996)
.
Afirm’snameisthemostimportanttrademark(e.g.,
Tadelis,
1999)
.Despiteextensivelegalprotections,itisnotuncommonforfirmstousesimilarlysoundingnames.Theuseofsimilarlysoundingnames,however,canincreasethelikelihoodofconfusionamongcustomersifasimilarlynamedfirmexperiencesstress.Thisissueisprobablymoreacuteinthebankingindustry,wherespilloverstothesystemasawholearemorelikelyduetobanks’roleasliquidityproviders(e.g.,
Kashyap,Rajan,andStein,
2002)
.
Severalcasesofrunsonbanksthathavesimilarlysoundingnameswithbanksexperiencingstressprovideausefulillustration.Forexample,followingtherescueannouncementoftheSanFrancisco-basedFirstRepublicBankonMarch17,2023,thestockofPennsylvania-basedRepublicFirstBankcorpplungedbynearly30%.ThismarkedRepublicFirst’sworstsingle-dayperformancesince1994despiteassurancesbythepresidentandCEOofthebankthat“amideverythinggoingon,RepublicBankwouldliketomakeveryclear:weareRepublicBank,Inc.(FRBK-Red/BlueLogo);weareNOTFirstRepublicBank(FRC-GreenLogo)”
.1
Otherbanks–SignatureBankofArkansasandSignatureBankChicago–releasedsimilarstatementsafterSignatureBankNewYorkshowedthefirstsignsofstressinMarch2023.
2
OnJuly25,2008,followingtheclosureoftheFirstNationalBankofReno,Nevada,andtheFirstHeritageBankofNewportBeach,California,bytheOfficeoftheComptrolleroftheCurrency(OCC),thepresidentandCEOofHeritageBankofReno,Nevada,spentdaysassuringcustomerswhosawthenameHeritageinthenewsthathisbankwasfinanciallysound
.3
1BankingDive,“RepublicFirstBankCEOtocustomers,investors:WearenotFirstRepublic”.
2SeeAppendixA.
3RenoGazette,“Bankreopenswithnewname”,29,July2008.
3
TheseepisodesarebynomeansaU.S.orrecentphenomenon.OnSeptember4,2014,inIndia,followingthenewscoveragebyaBengalinewspaperthattheJalpaiguriCooperativeBankLimiteddidnothavetherequiredRBIlicencetobeanactivebank,depositorsbecameconfusedwiththenameandturnedupattheJalpaiguriCentralCooperativeBankbrancheswantingtowithdraw
theirmoney.4
InOctober1934,depositorsranontheAmoybranchoftheNationalIndustrialBankofChina.Thereasonwasarumourthatthebank’sheadofficeinShanghaiwasclosedandthebankhadgoneoutofbusiness.Thetruth,however,wasthatasimilarlysoundingbankinShanghaihad
closedontheexactsameday.5
InSeptember1985,asconcernsmountedoverthehealthofsmallCanadianbanks,arundevelopedattheContinentalBankofCanada.Accordingtoitspresident,“thebankwasalsohurtbystatementsinthemediaconfusingitandatroubledtrustcompanywithasimilarname”,eventuallyresultinginasupportpackagefromagroupoffinancialinstitutionsandtheBankofCanada
.6
Theseexampleshaveonethingincommon:theuseofsimilarlysoundingnamescanincreasethelikelihoodofconfusionamongcustomersintheeventofanidiosyncraticshocktoasimilarlynamedbank.Confusionmaythenleadtorunsevenonwell-managedbanksthatarenotinanywayrelatedtothestressedbank.
Ourpapertakesadeepdiveintothisissue.WestudytheU.S.bankingsystemduetoitsstructureandhistoricalevolution.WhenAmericanbankingwasalocalbusiness,theFirstNationalBankofasmalltownwasdistinctiveenoughandunlikelytobeconfusedbyanotherFirstNationalBanktwotownsover.Infact,theNationalBankActof1864—alandmarkpieceoflegislationthatestablishedtheNationalBankingSystemintheUnitedStates—requiredbankstoincludethe
word“national”intheirnamesandencouragedthemtobearnumbers(ConleyandHunter,
2007)
.Thesenamingconventionshavepersistedintothe21stcentury.Thederegulationofthebankingindustryandtheadventofbranchbankinginthe1990shaveledbankswithsimilarlysoundingnameschoseninthepasttostartcompetinginthesameareas,potentiallyincreasingthelikelihoodofconfusionamongcustomers.ConfusionmayfurtherexacerbateintheeraoftheInternetandrapidcommunications.
4TheTelegraphOnline,“BanklicencescareafterRBInotice-Depositorspanicasofficialsseekcorrectiononbank
nameinnewspaper”.
5SouthChinaMorningPost,“RunonAmoyBank.TheNationalIndustrialBankofChina.VictimofRumours”,7,November,1934.
6TheGlobeandMail,“Bankreceives$2.9billioninaidCrisisshowsfewsignsofabating”,1,November,1985.
Thefirstpartofthepaperestablishesfactsaboutbanknamesandhowtheyevolvedovertime.Weshowthatthemostprevalentwordsinbanknamesare“bank”andcharterdistinctionssuchas“state”and“national”.Thetypeofbankisalsoacommonfeaturewithwordslike“community”,“savings”,and“trust”beingwidelyused.AsofDecember2022,nearly14%ofbanknamesbeginwiththeword“first”,while11%ofbanknamesbeginwithoneofsevenwords:“citizens”,“peoples”,“farmers”,“united”,“heritage”,“liberty”,or“american”.Nearly210(103)banksbeginwith“FirstNational(State)Bank”.Thesetwophrasesaccountforalmost7%ofallbanknamesin2022.Overall,nearly20%ofbanknamesbeginwithaphraseorstringthatcouldrefertoseveralbanksin2022.Interestingly,thissharehasbeenremarkablystableoverthepastthreedecadesdespitethemassiveconsolidationintheU.S.bankingindustry.
Theprevalenceofnamecommonalitiesmayleadtocustomers’confusioninthefaceofanegativeeventtoasimilarlysoundingbank.Weexplorethisissuenext.Foridentification,wefocusonbankfailuresandcomparedepositsofbanksthatsharetheirnamewiththefailedbank(treatmentgroup)tootherbankswithsimilarbalancesheetcharacteristicsbutdifferentname(controlgroup).Forexample,wecomparedepositsofHorizonBank,Nebraska(treatmentbank)toBankofVernon,Alabama(controlbank)beforeandafterthefailureofHorizonBank,Florida(failedbank).OurpropensityscorematchingalgorithmensuresthatHorizonBank,Nebraska,andBankofVernon,Alabama,havesimilarbalancesheetcharacteristics,includingsize,depositsovertotalassets,loansovertotalassetsandprofitability.WealsoensurethatthatHorizonBank,Nebraska,andHorizonBank,Florida,havenothingincommonbutaname
.7
WethentreatthefailureofHorizonBank,Florida,asanexogenouseventthatmay(ormaynot)impactdepositsofHorizonBank,Nebraska.ThepurposeofthecontrolbankistoinformuswhatwouldhavehappenedtothedepositsoftheNebraskabankintheabsenceofthefailureoftheFloridabank.
Viadifference-in-differencesregressions,wefindstrongeffectsontransactiondeposits
.8.
Trans-actiondepositsasashareoftotalassetsfallnearly0.7%immediatelyaftertheassociatedbankfailureandslowlyriseoverthefollowingtwoyears.Thiseffectisrobusttosaturatedmodelscom-pletewithbankandtimefixedeffects,aswellastheinclusionofbankingdemandcontrolsproxiedbycorporateinvestmentinthespiritof
GulenandIon
(2016)
.Thiseffectisfurtheramplified
bythepublicityeachbankfailurereceives(akintoa”mediamultiplier”(e.g.,
Besley,Fetzer,and
7Mostbanksinoursampleareunitbanks,sononearepartofthesamebankinggroupwhenwestudythem.
8Incontrasttotimeorsavingsdeposits,transactionsdepositscanbewithdrawnondemandandisaproduct
consistentwiththeroleofbanksasliquidityproviders(Kashyapetal.,2002)
4
5
Mueller,
inpress))
.Wefindthatwhenabankfailureismentionedinthenews,transactiondepositsovertotalassetsare,onaverage,nearly0.8%loweraftertheassociatedbankfailureandcandropbyasmuchas1%immediatelyaftertheassociatedbankfailure.Theseresultsarenotdrivenbyspecificbanksortimeperiodsandindicatethatbanksthatshareasimilarnamewithafailedbankexperienceasignificantdeclineintransactiondeposits.
Tobetterassesstheeconomicimpact,quantileestimatesacrossalltreatmentbanksinoursamplerevealstrikinginsightsintotheplausiblerangeofeffects.Wefindaone-in-tenchancethatthereductionintransactiondepositsamountsto2.14%,or$2.68million,andaone-in-fourchanceofareductionof1.17%,or$1.47million.Giventhatoursamplecomprisesofrelativelysmallcommunitybanks,roughly$100millionintotalassets,thesefindingsunderscoreasizeableeconomicimpactofname-relatedcontagionrisk.
Weproceedbyexploringtheeffectsonlending.Wefocusonvarioustypesofloansusingthedifference-in-differencessetting,andfindgenerallynoeffect.Whileconsumerloansslightlyreduce(byroughly0.12%),theseresultssuggestthattheeffectappearspredominantlyviabanks’liabilitiesanddonotsignificantlyhampercreditprovisioning.
Werationalizethesefindingsinamodeloffinancialcontagionwithoutfundamentallinkages.Ourbenchmarkmodelisbasedon
DiamondandDybvig
(1983)augmentedtohavearandom
investmentreturnandconsiderstheenvironmentwheretherearetwoex-anteidenticalDiamond-Dybvigbanks.Thebankshavenobalancesheetlinkages,andtheirassetreturnsareindependent.Therealizationoftheirinvestmentreturnsrevealsbeforedepositorsmakeawithdrawaldecision,andeachofthemreceivesaprivatesignalabouttherealization.However,thesignalisnoisy,inthesensethatitmayormaynotrepresenttheircorrespondingbank.Thefocalpointofourmodelistheprobabilitythatthedrawnsignalcorrespondstotheirbank,andwestudyhowtheposteriorbelief,influencedbythissignal,shapestheincentiveofbankruns.Inequilibrium,wefindthatbankrunriskdecreaseswhendepositorsaremorecertainaboutwhethertheirreceivedsignalcorrespondstotheirbank.Whenthesignalismoreprecise,thosewhoreceiveagoodsignalbelievethattheirbankismorelikelytohaveagoodasset,reducingtheincentivetorunonthebank.Whentheydonotrunonthebank,thosereceivingabadsignalalsohavelessincentive,asthefirst-moveradvantagediminishes.However,whenthesignalislessprecise,eventhosewhoreceiveagoodsignalstillhavestrongerincentivestorunonthebank.Thus,inthesensethatanoisiersignalmakesabankrunmorelikelytooccur,wehavecontagionthroughdepositors’beliefs.
Thiscontagionchannelexistsifandonlyifthesignalisimperfect.
Weextendthismodeltoevaluatehowabank’strademarkaffectsthebankrunrisk.Inpartic-ular,weaddanex-antechoiceofattentionallocation,whichdeterminestheprecisionofthesignal.Payingmoreattentionrequiresresourcecosts,andthecostparameterrepresentsthesimilarityofthebanks’trademarks.Inparticular,ifthebankssharesimilartrademarks,payingmoreattentionrequiresmoreresources.Weinterprettheeffectofthisparameterontheequilibriumbankrunriskastrademarkrisk.Whenitiscostlyfordepositorstodistinguishbanks,depositorsrationallychoosetopaylessattention,makingiteasierfortheprivatesignaltobemisidentified,resultinginhigherincentivestorunonthebank.Inotherwords,similarityoftrademarksamplifyfinancialfragility.Lastly,weexploretheroleofapublicsignal,whichweinterpretasmediacoverage.Thispublicsignalappearsifandonlyifatleastonebankhasabadinvestmentreturn,andinthisextension,weshowhowthemediacanamplifythetrademarkrisk.Ourmodelprovidesinsightsintohowfinancialcontagioncanmanifestitselftoincreasedbankrunriskwhendepositorshavethepossibilityofmisidentifyingthebank.
Relatedliterature:Ourpapercontributestoseveralstrandsoftheliterature.First,itcon-tributestotheliteratureontrademarks,whichareintangibleassetsthatincludelogos,soundsorcolors(e.g.
MilgromandRoberts,
1992)
.Alargetheoreticalliteraturediscusseshowtrademarkscaninformconsumersaboutthequalityofaserviceorproduct(e.g.
Akerlof,
1970;
Economides,
1988)andincentivizefirmstodeliverahigherlevelofqualityconsistentwiththeoriesoftrade
-marksastradeableassets(e.g.
Shapiro,
1982;
LandesandPosner,
1987;
Tirole,
1996;
Marveland
Ye,
2008)
.Theempiricalliteratureontrademarksisconsiderablysmallerandfocusesonthere-lationshipbetweentrademarkingactivityandafirm’smarketvalue.Forexample,inasampleofmanufacturingfirmsbetween1995and2005,
Krasnikov,Mishra,andOrozco
(2009)findthata
firm’strademarkispositivelycorrelatedwithitscashflow,Tobin’sQ,returnonassetsandstockreturns.Similarresultsareobtainedby
Gonz´alez-PedrazandMayordomo
(2012)whostudyU.S
.banksduringthesameperiod.Ourcontributiontothisliteratureistwofold.First,wedocumentfactsontheprevalenceandevolutionofnamesintheU.S.bankingindustryoverthepastthreedecades.Incontrasttosounds,colorsorlogos,afirm’snameisoneofitsmostimportanttrade-
marks(Tadelis,
1999)
.Second,weexplorehowsimilaritiesintrademarkscanleadtodistortionsinfinancialmarkets.Whiletheliteraturemeasuringfirmtrademarksisnascent,afirm’strademark
providessubstantialeconomicvalueandcanmakegoodsandservicesmorerecognizable(Desai,
6
7
Gavrilova,Silva,andSoares,
2022)
.Wecontributebyshowinghowabanksharinganamewitha
failedbankcancausedepositorstorunonanotherwisehealthybank.
Ourpaperalsorelatesinvestors’attentionallocationandfinancialcontagion.Attentionisa
scarcecognitiveresource(Kahneman,
1973),whichinvestorsmustchoosehowtoallocate
.Aseconomicagentsareresource-constrainedbytimeandprocessingmarketnews,theirattentioncanaffectstockprices(e.g.,
DellaVignaandPollet,
2009,
Da,Engelberg,andPengjie,
2011)
.Investors
canalsomisinterpretinformation,potentiallyleadingtothemisvaluationofassets(Hirshleifer,
2001)
.Evenwhennonewinformationisprovided,stocktickerswithsimilarnameshavebeenshown
tocomoveandcanbringpricesfurtherawayfromtheirfundamentals(Rashes,
2001;
Balashovand
Nikiforov,
2019)
.
MondriaandQuintana-Domeque
(2013)explainscontagionbetweenmarkets
throughinvestors’re-balancingattentionbetweenthemwhenamarketexperiencesadisruption.Ourpaperconsiderscontagionthroughinvestors’limitedattentioninthecontextofbankruns.However,neitherattentionchoicesnortrademarkshavebeenconsideredasacontagionchannelofbankfragility.Theclosestcontagionchannelthathasbeenconsideredinthecontextofbankrunsiscorrelationofassetexposures
.9
Whenbankshavecommonassetexposures,informationcancauseabankrun.Anearlymodelofaninformation-basedbankrunis
JacklinandBhattacharya
(1988),
andthen
Chen
(1999)showsthatbankrunscanbetriggeredbyinformationaboutanotherbank
whenbankshaveacommonexposure.Wheninvestorsdonotknowtheirbank’sassetquality,theymayusesignalsaboutthehealthofanotherbanktoassessthedefaultprobabilityoftheirbank,whichinturn,maycauseabankrun.Thiscommonexposurechannelhasbeenfurtherexploredby
AcharyaandYorulmazer
(2008b),
AcharyaandYorulmazer
(2008a),
Manz
(2010),and
Allen,
Babus,andCarletti
(2012)
.Morerecentpapers,
Trevino
(2020)and
AhnertandBertsch
(2022),
alsoconsidertheenvironmentwherebanks’fundamentals,andhenceassetreturns,arecorrelated.Thispaperisthefirsttoexaminecontagionintheabsenceoffundamentallinkagesbetweenbanks.Weinsteadconsiderhowinvestors’beliefs,shapedbythenoiseofsignals,drivecontagion.Theintensityofthisnoiseisdeterminedbytheallocationofattention,whichisinfluencedbytrademarks. Finally,wecontributetotheliteraturestudyingtheeffectofmediaonfinancialmarkets(e.g.
EngelbergandParsons,
2011,
Tetlock,
2007,
Dougal,Engelberg,Garcia,andParsons,
2012,
Gar-
maise,Levi,andLustig,
inpress)
.Ourresultsthatthemediacanexacerbaterisksrelatedto
9
Otherchannelsthatareconsideredintheliteratureincludedirectlinkagesofbalancesheets(AllenandGale,
2000,KiyotakiandMoore,
2002,
Dasgupta,
2004)andcommoninvestorbase(GoldsteinandPauzner,
2004)
.
8
trademarksalignswithrecentworkby
Cookson,Fox,Gil-Bazo,Imbet,andSchiller
(2023),who
findthatactivityonX(formerlyknownasTwitter)amplifiedbalancesheetriskduringthe2023SiliconValleyBankrun,and
Croce,Farroni,andWolfskeil
(2020),whoillustratehowsocialmedia
andnewspapersaccentuatecontagionriskemanatingfromtherecentCOVIDpandemic.Withtheriseofsocialmedia,theeffectoftrademarksandmisinformeddepositorscouldintensifyasinvestors
interpretrepeatedinformationthroughsuch“echochambers”asgenuineinformation(Jiao,Veiga,
andWalther,
2020)
.Ourtheoreticalframeworkaddsanovelperspectivetohowmediacoverageincreasesfragilitydependingontheinformationsetofeconomicagents,similarinspirittomodels
linkingendogenouspublicinformationtovolatilityandcrisisepisodes(AngeletosandWerning,
2006)
.
Theremainderofthepaperisstructuredasfollows.SectionIIdiscussesourdata.SectionIIIpresentsfactsonbanknames,andsectionIVpresentsourmainresults.SectionVpresentsthemodel,andsectionVIconcludes.
2DataandMethodology
ThetwoprimarydatasourcesareCallReportsforcommercialbanksintheUnitedStatesandtheFDICFailedBankdataset.Bothdatasetsarepubliclyavailable.CallReportscontaincompletebanknames,aswellasbalancesheetandincomestatementsdataoncommercialbanks.WealsousethesedatatoidentifybankswithsimilarnamestothoseintheFDICFailedBankdataset.TheFDICFailedBankdatasetcontainsinformationon564banksthatfailedbetween2000and2023.SincethebanknamesintheCallReportsdatacontainabbreviations,theabbreviationsare
elongatedtomatchthefullnameoftheFDICdataset
.10
Usingafuzzymatchingalgorithm,wesearchformatchesbetweentheFDICFailedBankdataset
andtheCallReportsdataonequarterafterthefailureofeachfailedbank.Thisprocessresultsin
10Afterinspectingtheindividualnames,wemakethefollowingsubstitutionstotheCallReportsnames:CountyforCTY;CooperativeforCO-OP;CommunityforCMNTY;FederalSavings&LoanAssociationforFS&LA;Savings&LoanAssociationforS&LA;Building&LoanAssociationforB&LA;BankforBK;StateSavingsBankforSSB;Bank&TrustCompanyforB&TC;FederalSavingsBankforFSB;BankingforBKG;SavingsforSVGandSVGS;CommerceforCMRC;TrustforTR;SavingsBankforSB;StateforST;FinancialforFNCL;NationalAssociationforNA;NationalforNAT;NationalBankforNBandNBANK;MerchantsforMRCH;CompanyforCO;TrustandCompanyforTC.
9
107failedbankssharingthenameofasurvivingbank.These107failedbanksareassociatedwith1,026banksthatsharetheirnamewithafailedbank(treatmentbanks).Wedropanytreatmentbankthatdoesnotcontaindatatwoyearsbeforeandafterthedateofthesimilarlynamedfailedbank.Thisrestrictionreducesthenumberoftreatmentbanksto945.
Next,wecreateamatchedsampleforacontrolgroupusingapropensityscorematchingalgo-rithm.Thecontrolgroupconsistsofbanksthatdonotshareanamewithtreatmentbanks,butaresimilarinnotablecharacteristics,whichwerestricttosize,depositsovertotalassets,loansovertotalassetsandprofitability(proxiedbyROA).Weperformthematchingusingdatatwoyearspriortotheassociatedbankfailure.Weensurethatthefailedbankisassociatedwithatleasttwosimilarlynamedbankstoensureanaccuratepropensityscorematchingestimate.Thisrestrictionreducesthenumberoftreatmentbanksto899banks.Afterthematchingprocess,wefind894controlbanksthatmeetthematchingcriteria.Itisimportanttonotethatsomecontrolbanksarematchedtomultipletreatmentbanks,resultinginadifferenceinnumbersbetweenthe894controlbanksandthe899treatmentbanks.
SummarystatisticsforthematchedsamplecanbefoundinTable
1.
Thesestatisticsreflectthetwoyearspriortotheassociatedbankfailuretoensurethatthetreatmentandcontrolgroupsaresimilaralongobservables.Overall,thetotalassetsforbothbanksarearound$108millioninbothgroups.Giventhesizeofthesebanks,themajorityoftheirfundingcomesfromdeposits(83%oftotaldepositsintotalassets).Giventhesmallsizeofthebanks,theseareprimarilyretaildeposits.Thetablealsoshowsthattimedepositsovertotalassetsarenearly39%inbothgroups.Transactiondepositsareslightlyhigherinthetreatmentgroupby3%,whileuninsureddepositsrepresentasmallportionofassets,averagingaround1%.Banksinbothgroupshavearound23%ofdepositsbelowthe$250,000accountlimit,and16%overthesamelimit.Ontheassetside,lendinginbothgroupsisapproximately60%oftheirtotalassets,withthemajorityofloansbeingmortgages(40%)followedbyC&I(9%)andconsumerloans(5%).
3FactsonU.S.Banks’Names
TheNationalBankActof1864wasalandmarkpieceoflegislationthatestablishedtheNationalBankingSystemintheUnitedStates.Thislegislationimposedanumberofrequirementson
10
nationalbanks,includingtherequirementthattheyincludetheword“national”intheirname
.11
Italsoencouragedbankstobearnumbersintheirnames.Asaresult,banknameshavebeendescriptiveratherthandistinctiveoverthehistoryofAmericanbankingwithalargenumberofbankstodayhavingsimilarsoundingnames.
Figure
1
showsawordcloudofthemostcommonwordsinbanknamesasofDecember2022.Themostprevalentwordsare“bank”andcharterdistinctionssuchas“state”and“national”.Thetypeofbankisalsoadistinguishingandcommonfeatureinbanknames,withwordslike“community”,“savings”,and“trust”withhighusage.
Table
2
showsthepercentageofbankswithcommonwordsandphrasesintheirnames.Becausenamesareoftenreferredtousingtheirfirstwordorwords(e.g.“CitibankNationalAssociation”isoftenjustreferredtoas“Citibank”or“Citi”),weshowfrequenciesofnamesthatbeginwiththespecifictoken,andalsonamesthatcontainthetokenanywhereintheirbankname.Nearly14%ofbanknamesbeginwiththeword“first”,while11%ofbanksbeginwithoneofsevenwords:“citizens”,“peoples”,“farmers”,“united”,“heritage”,“liberty”,or“american”.Table
2
alsoshowsthataselectnumberofphrasesusedinbanknamescanrefertoasizablenumberofbanks.“FirstNationalBank”and“FirstStateBank”appearinthebeginningof210and103banknames,respectively.Thesetwophrasesaccountfornearly6.6%ofbanknamesin2022.Overall,18%ofbanksbeginwithaphraseorstringthatcouldreferto
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