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serve Board Working Paper, forthcoming in Journal of Banking

and Finance 23 (1999).

30. See, for instance, James Barth, Daniel Nolle, and Tara

Rice, "Commercial Banking Structure, Regulation, and Perfor-

mance: An International Comparison," Office of the Comptrol-

ler of the Currency, Working Paper 97-6, February 1997.

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