This study assesses how banking sector integration and especially cross-border lending affect macroeconomic stability … large banks as measured by high concentration in the banking industry has to be accounted for. I study the role of different … forms of banking sector integration - i.e. arms-length crossborder lending versus lending via foreign affiliates - for the …

affect cross-border banking. Furthermore, I extend the baseline model to allow for third-country effects, which have been …, is there a spatial dimension in cross-border banking? Second, if so, has it changed over time, and third, what happens if … this spatial dimension is ignored? I use bilateral data on cross-border banking assets for 15 countries over the time …

Patterns in cross-border banking have changed since the global financial crisis. This may affect domestic bank market … modes of cross-border banking impact bank concentration. I use a two- country general equilibrium model with heterogeneous … banking sector on bank market structures. The model suggests that both cross-border lending and bank FDI mitigate …

affect cross-border banking. Furthermore, I extend the baseline model to allow for third-country effects, which have been …, is there a spatial dimension in cross-border banking? Second, if so, has it changed over time, and third, what happens if … this spatial dimension is ignored? I use bilateral data on cross-border banking assets for 15 countries over the time …

banking and insurance performance, and evaluate the forecasts from our model. We find that taking unobserved common factors …