This paper examines the implications of foreign bank penetration on economic growth from the perspective of resource allocation in host countries. We use aggregate banking data, constructed from bank-level balance sheets and income statement information covering more than 1200 banks in the 35...

The financial crisis has influenced significantly the Romanian banking system activity causing different changes of Banks strategies between 2009 and 2012 (in 2013 changes are still registered). Within a poor credit market, the Banks market share registered important fluctuations, some of them...