We use exogenous variation in the degree of restrictions to bank competition across Italian provinces to study both the … effects of bank regulation and the impact of deregulation. We find that where entry was more restricted the cost of credit was … increase in bad loans. In provinces where restrictions to bank competition were most severe, the proportion of bad loans after …

studying bank-specific data on lending by domestically- and foreign-owned banks in Argentina and Mexico. We find that foreign …. Overall, these findings suggest that bank health, and not ownership per se, is the critical element in the growth, volatility …, and cyclicality of bank credit. Diversity in ownership appears to contribute to greater stability of credit in times of …

effects from cross-border bank takeovers with those of cross-border lending by banks located overseas, which in most cases …

activities that require the processing of soft information. We explore this idea in the context of bank lending to small firms … records. Moreover, controlling for the endogeneity of bank-firm matching, large banks lend at a greater distance, interact …

The post-crisis period has seen a considerable shift in the composition and drivers of international bank lending and … "taper tantrum", and then partially reverted towards pre-crisis levels. Conversely, the responsiveness of international bank … securities. The increased sensitivity of international bank flows to US monetary policy has been driven mainly by post …

financial conglomerates. We conjecture and provide evidence that the organizational complexity of the family of a bank is a … fundamental driver of the business model of the bank itself, as reflected in the management of the bank's own balance sheet. Using … change the scale of the lending channel for a large global bank by more than 30 percent …