outside directors than non- financial firms, and bank officer-directors tend to have more external board directorships than … whether those connections affect lending and borrowing behavior. Although a board linkages may reduce the costs of information …- information cost firms are also more likely to borrow from their connected bank, and when they do so the terms of the loan appear …

stronger if the observing and penalized directors share the same professional background or gender and if the observing …What makes independent directors perform their monitoring duty? One possible reason is that they are worried about … market, we estimate the extent to which independent directors' perceptions of the likelihood of receiving a regulatory …

studying bank-specific data on lending by domestically- and foreign-owned banks in Argentina and Mexico. We find that foreign … lending, contributing to lower overall volatility of credit. Additionally, in both countries, foreign banks show notable … similar, and lending rates analogously respond to aggregate demand fluctuations. In Mexico, foreign and domestic banks with …

effects from cross-border bank takeovers with those of cross-border lending by banks located overseas, which in most cases … show how endogenous markups (the net interest margin commonly used to proxy lending-to-deposit rate spreads) can increase …

evidence for the lending channel for monetary policy in large banks, but only those banks that are domestically-oriented and … contributes to an international propagation of domestic liquidity shocks to lending by affiliated banks abroad. While these … results imply a substantially more active lending channel than documented in the seminal work of Kashyap and Stein (2000), the …

-to-value ratios and local currency reserve requirements increase lending growth in the United States through the U.S. branches and … subsidiaries of foreign banks. Second, a foreign tightening of capital requirements shifts lending by U.S. global banks away from … regulation reduces lending by large U.S. global banks to foreign residents …

has been segmented through various kinds of restrictions, because the central bank is unable to function as a lender of … last resort in a currency other than its own. The standing issue is whether in practice, a parent bank effectively takes …

This paper analyzes the determinants of spreads on syndicated bank lending to emerging markets, treating the loan … interpretation of bank finance as dominating that segment of international financial markets characterized by the most pronounced … information asymmetries. Domestic lending booms and low reserves in relation to short-term debt have been priced in the expected …

compares the response of the volume of loans, deposits, and bank-specific interest rates on loans and deposits, to various … domestic and foreign banks during periods of financial distress and tranquil times. Using differences in bank ownership as a … liquidity and/or capitalization. At the same time, the lending and deposit rates of foreign banks tend to be smoother during …