Search Results - subject:"International bank"

International Banking Regulation and Climate Change

Alexander, Kern; Lastra, Rosa M. - 2022

argument that these regulatory instruments should serve as a basis for developing more harmonised international bank … economy’s green transition are giving rise to new types of risks for banks. This paper analyses some of the key international … bank regulatory standards, namely, disclosure, risk management, governance and regulatory capital. We develop the novel …

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Bank Ownership Structures and Sustainable Banking Initiatives : The Moderating Effect of Governance Mechanism

adu, douglas; Abedin, Mohammad Zoynul; Hasan, Mudassar - 2022

Bank regulators in the Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) region are increasingly focusing on effective bank ownership structures (BOS) as a key corporate governance (CG) mechanism to drive sustainable banking disclosures (SBD). However, it is unclear whether BOS can lead to an enhancement in SBD....

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Shock Absorbers or Transmitters? The Role of Foreign Banks During COVID-19

Sen, Anamika; Yao, Weijia; Yépez, Juan F. - 2022

This paper studies whether bank ownership influenced lending behavior during the COVID-19 shock. It finds that, similar to previous episodes of financial distress, foreign banks appear to have played a shock-transmitting role, as there was a sharp slowdown in lending by foreign banks’...

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Geographic Complexity and Bank Risk : Evidence from Cross-Border Banks in Africa

Anani, Makafui - 2022

I construct a novel dataset to measure the geographic complexity of cross-border African banks and relate it to their default and earnings risk. The results suggest that a higher degree of geographic complexity decreases risk. Further results show that the negative relationship between...

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Financial Openness and Firm Exports : Evidence from Foreign-Owned Banks in China

Lyu, Chaofeng; Xiao, ZIHENG; Pu, Yun - 2022

Firms involved in international trade require an active and efficient financial market to facilitate their credit services, which are enhanced by financial openness. In this study, we identify the impact of financial openness on the exports of Chinese firms by 386 foreign-owned banks in China...

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Cultural Stereotypes of Multinational Banks

Eichengreen, Barry; Saka, Orkun - 2022

Using hand-collected data spanning more than a decade on European banks’ sovereign debt portfolios, we show that the trust of residents of a bank’s countries of operation in the residents of a potential target country of investment has a positive, statistically significant, and economically...

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Strategic Management of Risk by Multinational Banks in Sub Saharan Africa

Muhanguzi, Kibs Boaz - 2022

In their search for profit maximization, multinational enterprises should adopt strategies that neutralize country risk effects. This paper seeks to establish whether country risk affects profitability of multinational banks in sub-Saharan Africa, and whether strategic decisions regarding...

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Unconventional-policy spillovers of U.S. interest on reserves within global Dollar-denominated retail loan and deposit markets

Dia, Enzo; VanHoose, David D. - 2022

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Foreign Ownership and Market Power : The Special Case of European Banks

Samantas, Ioannis; Alexakis, Panayotis - 2022

The paper examines the nexus of foreign ownership and market power in 26 European banking sectors, for the period 1997-2013. The sample comprises 11,761 bank-year estimates of marginal cost and market power, which are then matched with data on the foreign ownership status and presence across all...

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Help in a Foreign Land : Internationalized Banks and Firms’ Export

Brancati, Emanuele - 2022

The lack of information is a relevant obstacle to the export activity of small and medium enterprises. This paper analyzes whether banks can support firms’ export by reducing informational asymmetries about foreign markets. We exploit a large sample of Italian firms for which we merge custom...

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