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The 20th Annual Conference on Bank Structure & Competition

Since the early 1960s, the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago’s Conference on Bank Structure and Competition has served as a forum for academics, regulators and industry participants to debate current issues affecting the financial services industry. Each year the purpose of the conference is to continue that tradition. This retrospective on the history and evolution of the conference reviews the past four decades of conferences.

 

The primary motivating factor for the conference was the passage of the 1960 Bank Merger Act and the U.S. versus Philadelphia National Bank Supreme Court decision. Suddenly, bank regulatory agencies were required to consider competitive factors in addition to banking factors when evaluating bank merger applications. Each of the Federal Reserve Banks was encouraged to survey the existing literature on bank structure and develop its own research agendas on these issues.

Monday, 04/23/84
8:00 AM
I. Current Economic and Regulatory Issues
Pressing Issues Facing Financial Institutions and the Regulatory Agencies
Steven M. Robert, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
8:30 AM
II. Panel on Interstate Banking: The Vantage of Experience
A Framework for Discussion of Interstate Banking
Larry A. Frieder, Florida A&M University
The Southern Financial Marketplace: The Florida Interstate Banking Study
Larry A. Frieder, Florida A&M University
The Case for a Rational Banking System
Thomas I. Storrs, NCNB Corporation
Sharing Prosperity: Regional Interstate Banking versus the Consumer
Thomas C. Theobald, Citibank/Citicorp
New England: The Case for Regional Interstate Banking
Richard D. Hill, Bank of Boston
Regional Restrictive Reciprocity in Banking Structure: Public Policy from the Massachusetts Perspective
Gerald T. Mulligan, Mutual Bank for Savings
11:30 AM
III. Can Banking Be Separated from Commercial Activities?
The Separation of Banking and Commerce: A Historical Perspective
Bernard Shull, Hunter College
Product Line Regulations for Financial Institutions: A Cross-Country Comparison
Laurie S. Goodman, Citibank
Christine M. Cumming, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Joanne Kumekawa, Bay Area Residential Investment and Development Corporation
The Wealth Effects of Regulatory Intervention Surrounding the Bailout of Continental Illinois
John M. Harris, Jr., Clemson University
James R. Scott, University of Arkansas
Joseph F. Sinkey, Jr., University of Georgia
2:00 PM
IV. Policy Issues in Bank Product and Market Expansion
The Impact of Equity in Bank Portfolios
Herwig Langohr, INSEAD
Anthony M. Santomero, University of Pennsylvania, The Wharton School
Bank Holding Company Acquisitions and Managerial Efficiency
Christopher M. James, University of Oregon
The Effect of Promotional Pricing on Dynamic Adjustment in the Markets for MMFs and MMDAs
Herbert L. Baer, Jr., Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Gillian G. Garcia, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Simon Pak, New York University
Bank Holding Companies and the Potential for Anticompetitive Practices
Paul S. Calem, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
Tuesday, 04/24/84
8:00 AM
V. The Glass–Steagall Act and Related Issues
Abstract: An Economic Perspective on Bank Uniqueness and Corporate Securities Activities
Anthony Saunders, New York University
The Securities Activities of Banks: What Has Been Done and What Could Have Been Done
George G. Kaufman, Loyola University of Chicago and the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Underwriting Risk for Commercial Banks: An Empirical Study
Ian H. Giddy, Columbia University
The Federal Reserve Board's Nonbank Bank Dilemma
Arthur E. Wilmarth, Jr., Jones, Day, Reavis & Poague
11:00 AM
VI. The Viability of Small Financial Institutions in a Deregulated Era
Banking or Brewing? A Fresh Look at Acquisition Patterns
Joel A. Bleeke, McKinsey & Company, Inc.
New Dimensions in Banking
Richard J. Wurzburg, Bank Administration Institute
Executive Attitudes and Strategic Plans for Interstate Banking
James R. Booth, Arizona State University
12:00 PM
VII. Smaller Financial Institutions: Research Findings versus Mythology
Size and Profitability in Banking
James W. Kolari, Texas A&M University
Donald R. Fraser, Texas A&M University
Comparative Performance Analysis: Is High Performance Stable and Can It Be Emulated?
James Harvey, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City
Shifting Agricultural Demographics and Changing Bank Structure
Albert Kagan, University of Northern Iowa
Robert W. Wyatt, University of Northern Iowa
Darrel W. Davis, University of Northern Iowa
2:00 PM
VIII. Issues in Measuring and Controlling Bank Risk
Bank Holding Company Diversification and Risk
Robert A. Eisenbeis, University of North Carolina
Larry D. Wall, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
Regulatory Structure in Futures Markets: Jurisdictional Competition between the SEC, the CFTC and Other Agencies
Edward J. Kane, Ohio State University
A Continuous Time Analysis of Bank Failures
Robert B. Avery, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
Gerald A. Hanweck, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
The Response of Bank Stock Returns to Money Supply Announcements
Vefa Tarhan, Loyola University of Chicago
Multibank Holding Company Expansion and Cash Flow Diversification as a Motive for Merger
Michael Smirlock, University of Pennsylvania
Donald M. Brown, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Risk Regulation in the Banking Industry
Joseph F. Sinkey, University of Georgia
Myths Revered by Regulators, Academics and Bankers
Gerald F. Fitzgerald, Suburban Bancorp, Inc.
Wednesday, 04/25/84
8:00 AM
IX. Critical Public Policy Issues: Implications and Prospects for the Bush Commission Proposals
The Structure of Financial Regulation
Andrew S. Carron, Lehman Brothers Kuhn Loeb, Inc.
The Bush Committee Report: Implementation Problems and Prospects
Gary G. Gilbert, Bank Administration Institute
10:00 AM
X. Critical Public Policy Issues: The Role of the States in Banking Regulation
State Initiatives in Banking Regulation
William E. Whitesell, Franklin & Marshall College
The Role of the States in Banking Regulation: A View of the State Supervisory Agencies
Robert A. Richard, Conference of State Bank Supervisors
The Role of the States in Banking Regulation: The Views from the U.S. Congress
Lamar Smith, U.S. Senate Committee on Banking
12:30 PM
XI. Issues for the Future
National Industrial Policy: Some Implications for U.S. Banking
Frederick R Strobel, Kalamazoo College
Banking Deregulation: Some Political Considerations
Marc A. Triebwasser, Central Connecticut State University

 

A Brief History of the Conference

Since the early 1960s the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago’s Conference on Bank Structure and Competition has served as a forum for academics, regulators and industry participants to debate current issues affecting the financial services industry. Each year the purpose of the conference is to continue that tradition. This retrospective on the history and evolution of the conference reviews the past four decades of conferences.

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Event Information
Event Contact
Blanca Sepulveda
(312) 322-8340
Email
Date
04/23/84  - 04/25/84
Location
The Fairmont Chicago Hotel
200 N Columbus Dr
Chicago, Illinois 60601
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