The Entry, Performance, and Risk Profile of De Novo Banks

34 Pages Posted: 10 May 2016

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Yan Y. Lee

Government of the United States of America - Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)

Chiwon Yom

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)

Date Written: April 2016

Abstract

From 2000 to 2008, 1,042 new community banks were chartered. Despite the largest financial crisis in decades, the vast majority of these new banks either survived or were financially healthy when merged with another bank. In this paper we investigate whether the patterns of community bank de novo formation and failure for this cohort that formed just prior to the recent financial crisis were the same as for new institutions from earlier periods. Similar to previous periods, we find that many of the new banks chartered were in markets that experienced bank mergers or acquisitions, and were large and growing. Consistent with a “life-cycle theory” of de novos, compared with small established banks, recent de novos were financially fragile and failed at higher rates during the crisis. Discrete-time hazards models confirm that failed de novos from the recent period invested heavily in construction and development lending prior to the crisis, similar to the concentrated loan portfolios exhibited by earlier cohorts.

Suggested Citation

Lee, Yan Y. and Yom, Chiwon, The Entry, Performance, and Risk Profile of De Novo Banks (April 2016). FDIC Center for Financial Research Paper No. 2016-03, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2778168 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2778168

Yan Y. Lee (Contact Author)

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Chiwon Yom

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) ( email )

Washington, DC 20429
United States

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