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Cost of Capital and Dividend Policies in Commercial Banks

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 October 2009

S. D. Magen
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The purpose of this study is to analyze the behavior of the cost of equity capital in the commercial banks by looking at whether there exists an optimal composition of the bank “fund structure” that would maximize bank earnings through the minimization of its cost of funds. The analysis should give an approximate cut-off point for testing such projects as “checking plus,” checkless payment systems, etc.

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Financial Institutions
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Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis , Volume 6 , Issue 2 , March 1971 , pp. 733 - 746
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Copyright © School of Business Administration, University of Washington 1971

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1 Since deposits constitute a considerable percentage of bank resources, and the term capital structure has been used in the literature to define the combination of owners equity and long-term debt in industrial and mercantile firms, it is more appropriate to use the term fund structure for the banks as a substitute for the term capital structure.

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4 By “the same degree of government regulation,” it is meant the extent of supervision by the F.R. System and other regulatory agencies as to safety and reserves requirements. The paper does not consider the matters of branchings and impact on competitiveness, or the variety of regulations governing states versus national banks.

5 The banks were classified into the three categories based on the general knowledge of bankers.

6 Modigliani and Miller, J“The Cost of Capital,” p. 261–97.

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9 Other possible and equally acceptable measurements would have been the dividend yield on either book or market value. To keep the scope of this study within manageable proportions, it was decided to restrict the measurements of the dependent variable to these two estimators.

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