to growth and prosperity, the Inter-American Development Bank has made this sector the focus of its 2005 Report on … Economic and Social Progress in Latin America. The Report analyzes the three main characteristics of bank credit …

developed to show that a more diversified international bank may be one of lower, overall risk and less susceptible to funding …

This paper builds a new dataset on bank ownership and bank performance covering approximately 50,000 observations for … 119 countries over the 1995-2002 period. The paper then uses the dataset to reassess the relationship between bank … ownership and bank performance, providing separated estimations for developing and industrial countries. It is found that, while …

This paper examines whether bank ownership (public versus private, domestic versus foreign) is correlated with bank … bank managers; evidence is found in support of the former hypothesis. In the case of foreign-owned banks, the paper finds …

This paper tests the efficiency of different structures of bank ownership in terms of its ability to target …