An Examination of the Impact of the Garn-St. Germain Depository Institutions Act of 1982 on Commercial Banks and Savings and Loans

Marcia H Millon-Cornett and Hassan Tehranian

Journal of Finance, 1990, vol. 45, issue 1, 95-111

Abstract: This paper evaluates the effects of events leading to the passage of the Garn-St. Germain Depository Institutions Act of 1982. The evidence suggests that the call for reform by President Reagan's Housing Commission and the Senate passage of the bill produced positive abnormal returns to stockholders of large savings and loans and commercial banks. Stockholders of small S&Ls and banks, on the other hand, generally experienced negative abnormal returns. Furthermore, when hopes of passage of the act faded, significant negative (positive) abnormal returns were experienced by stockholders of large (small) S&Ls and banks. Copyright 1990 by American Finance Association.

Date: 1990
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