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Impact of Foreign Banks
Claessens, Stijn; Horen, Neeltje van - de Nederlandsche Bank - 2013
This paper provides a critical assessment of the costs and benefits of foreign bank ownership. It reviews the extensive literature on the impact of foreign banks and uses a unique database on bank ownership, covering 129 countries, to (re-)examine a number of the issues discussed. It documents...
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Banking across Borders
Niepmann, Friederike - de Nederlandsche Bank - 2011
This paper develops and tests a theoretical model that allows for the endogenous decision of banks to engage in international and global banking. International banking, where banks raise capital in the home market and lend it abroad, is driven by differences in factor endowments across...
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Foreign Banks: Trends, Impact and Financial Stability
Claessens, Stijn; Horen, Neeltje van - de Nederlandsche Bank - 2011
Using a new, comprehensive database on bank ownership, identifying also the home country of foreign banks, for 137 countries over the period 1995-2009, this paper provides an overview of foreign bank activity and its impact of financial development and stability. We document substantial...
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Location Decisions of Foreign Banks and Institutional Competitive Advantage
Claessens, Stijn; Horen, Neeltje van - de Nederlandsche Bank - 2008
Familiarity with working in a specific institutional environment compared to its competitors can provide a firm with a competitive advantage, making it invest in specific host countries. We examine whether this notion of institutional competitive advantage drives banks to seek out specific...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005106662
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The impact of the global financial crisis on banking globalization
Claessens, Stijn; Horen, Neeltje van - de Nederlandsche Bank - 2015
Although cross-border bank lending has fallen sharply since the crisis, extending our bank ownership database from 1995-2009 up to 2013 shows only limited retrenchment in foreign bank presence. While banks from OECD countries reduced their foreign presence (but still represent 89% of foreign...
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Being a Foreigner among Domestic Banks: Asset or Liability?
Claessens, Stijn; Horen, Neeltje van - de Nederlandsche Bank - 2009
. Studying the performance of foreign banks relative to domestic banks in a large number of countries between 1999 and 2006, we … large and rely more on deposits for funding. Foreign banks improve their performance over time, possibly as they adapt to …' performance. These findings show that it is important to control for heterogeneity among foreign banks when studying their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008480963
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Growth, Foreign Direct Investment and Urban Concentration: Unbundling Spatial Lags
Poelhekke, Steven; Ploeg, Frederick van der - de Nederlandsche Bank - 2008
that primacy eventually hurts growth performance. Since it is tough to interpret cross-country growth regressions, we …
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Bank Competition Efficiency in Europe: A Frontier Approach
Bolt, Wilko; Humphrey, David - de Nederlandsche Bank - 2008
the structure-conduct-performance paradigm while academics prefer price mark-ups (Lerner index) or correlations of input …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005101793
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Home Bank Intermediation of Foreign Direct Investment
Poelhekke, Steven - de Nederlandsche Bank - 2011
This paper investigates the benefits of banks' direct investment in foreign subsidiaries and branches for non-financial multinationals. The paper builds on the literature on international banks which has primarily focused on the implications for host countries, rather than for its international...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009144150
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Multinational Banks and the Global Financial Crisis. Weathering the Perfect Storm?
Haas, Ralph de; Lelyveld, Iman van - de Nederlandsche Bank - 2011
We use data on the 48 largest multinational banking groups to compare the lending of their 199 foreign subsidiaries during the Great Recession with lending by a benchmark group of 202 domestic banks. Contrary to earlier, more contained crises, parent banks were not a significant source of...
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