The paper presents an historical synthesis of the rise and early growth of banking industry in Romania from mid-XIX century to the outbreak of World War I and concentrates on the last decades of this period. The idea of a single national bank of issue under the control of the government had been...

This article seeks to contribute to the debate on how to devise an appropriate legal framework for foreign bank operations. It considers the implications of the corporate form of foreign bank operations and examines how countries can protect domestic financial systems effectively from the...

This paper has investigated the drivers for bank expansion abroad in East Africa. We use a Poisson regression model with number of banks going abroad as our dependent variable and several host-country and source-country explanatory variables. Our results indicate that follow-the-customer motive...

The organizing stages that predate entry into an organizational population were studied from an ecological perspective. Based on ta detailed analysis of foreign banks in Shanghai, findings are presented that suggest that the likelihood of moving from the organizing phase to the operational phase...

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...