', if fiscal consolidation is combined with a program for bank recovery and for competitiveness and growth. The second …

We analyze the microeconomic determinants of cross-border bank acquisitions in 16 transition economies over the period …

survival of top executives (Presidents, CEOs and General Managers) to bank performance and the manager's local connections …, controlling for (observable and unobservable) bank and manager characteristics by exploiting longitudinal information on bank …-manager appointments. We measure the extent? of managers' local connections by the distance between the province of the bank's headquarters …

This paper describes the trends in foreign bank ownership across the world and presents, for the first time, empirical … bank subsidiaries across 54 countries from 1997 to 2009, we show that the problems encountered by subsidiaries were not the …. Therefore, we assume that a multinational bank's decision to close or sell a subsidiary in another country is based mainly on …

We model EU countries' bank ratings using financial variables and allowing for intercept and slope heterogeneity. Our …

, which may have intensified the diabolic loop between sovereign and bank credit risks. By using a novel bank-level dataset …

capital standards, and cost of bank equity determine credit reallocation, sectoral expansion and trade patterns …