-2000, with detailed information on bank ownership and mode of entry. Our analysis shows that during crisis periods domestic banks … conditions matter for foreign bank growth, as there is a significant and negative relationship between home country economic …

-2000, with detailed information on bank ownership and mode of entry. We show that during crisis periods (former) domestic banks … contracted their credit base, whereas greenfield foreign banks did not. Also, home country conditions matter for foreign bank … greenfields. Finally, foreign bank subsidiary's credit growth is influenced by the health of the parent bank. …

-2000, with detailed information on bank ownership. Our analysis shows that during crisis periods domestic banks contracted their … credit and deposit bases, whereas foreign banks did not. Also, home country conditions matter for foreign bank growth, as …

In this study we disentangle two dimensions of banks' systemic risk: the level of bank tail risk and the linkage … between a bank's tail risk and severe shocks in the financial system. We employ a measure of the systemic risk of financial … bank characteristics are related to bank tail risk and systemic linkage. The interrelationship between bank characteristics …

This paper reviews studies exploring how higher bank capital requirements affect economic growth. There is little … evidence of a direct effect; research focuses on the indirect effects of capital requirements on credit supply, bank asset risk …, and cost of bank capital, which in turn can affect economic growth. Banks facing higher capital requirements can reduce …

interaction between politicy makers and pressure groups. The second half of the report is devoted to bank regulation. It is argued … effects of regulatory policies in the form of deposit insurance, capital requirements, bank monitoring, bank closure policy as …

This study aims at assessing empirically the determinants of changes in risk-weighted bank capital ratios in the 1990s … in Germany, France, Italy, the Netherlands, the UK and the US. Both bank-specific characteristics, factors at the banking … industry level and the degree of undercapitalization are found to be relevant for bank capital ratios. The results suggest that …

interaction between business cycles and bank behaviour over the past two decades for 26 industrial countries. As expected, profits …