household credit is related to foreign bank ownership. In countries with higher foreign bank presence we find a stronger …

inefficiencies, as the various distortions can offset each other. Empirical analysis using bank-level data from the recent crisis …

Recently, developing countries have witnessed a sharp increase in foreign bank participation. The authors examine the … impact on banking outreach using newly gathered data for Mexico, where foreign bank participation rose from 2 percent to 83 … percent of assets during 1997-2005. Country-, bank-, and bank-municipality level estimations show a decline in the number of …

Using a unique bank-level data set on the Ugandan banking system during 1999-2005, the authors explore the factors … not find a robust and economically significant relationship between privatization, foreign bank entry, market structure …, and banking efficiency. Similarly, macroeconomic variables can explain little of the over-time variation in bank spreads …

household credit is related to foreign bank ownership. In countries with higher foreign bank presence we find a stronger …