Bank Management and Portfolio Behavior

BANK MANAGEMENT
AND PORTFOLIO BEHAVIOR

by
DONALD D. HESTER and JAMES L. PIERCE

Yale University Press, New Haven and London
1975

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	TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter		Page
	Preliminary Pages	i
1.	Introduction	3
2.	Underpinnings for a Theory of Bank Behavior	11
3.	Models of Bank Portfolio Behavior	38
4.	Estimation of the Models: Problems and Techniques	73
5.	Data Resources, Sample Selection, and the Profile of a Typical Observation	101
6.	Estimates for the Input-Output Model from a Sample of Commercial Banks	117
7.	Estimates for the Input-Output Model from a Sample of Mutual Savings Banks	146
8.	On Forecasting Bank Deposits	184
9.	The Adaptive-Expectations Formulation	202
10.	Bank Earnings, Costs, and Rates of Return	213
11.	Some Prescriptive Conclusions for Improving Commerical Bank Earnings	231
12.	Bank Bahvior and Macroeconomic Credit Flows	250
	Postscript	285
	Selected Bibliography	289
	Index	297