equilibrium when banks have monopoly power, justifying a Pigouvian tax in this case. …

differences in financial factors, which may reflect differences in country risk and the legal and regulatory framework that banks …

The current financial crisis has sparked intense debate about how weak banks should be resolved. Despite international …

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 … the volume of FDI by home market banks boosts FDI by non-financial firms from the same home market. Domestic and third …

of deregulation: in states that opened their banking markets to out-of-state banks earlier, house prices were more … sensitive to capital inflows. We provide evidence that global imbalances were a major positive funding shock for US wide banks …: different from local banks, these banks held a geographically diversified portfolio of mortgages which allowed them to tap the …

of deregulation: in states that opened their banking markets to out-of-state banks earlier, house prices were more … sensitive to capital inflows. We provide evidence that global imbalances were a major positive funding shock for US wide banks …: different from local banks, these banks held a geographically diversified portfolio of mortgages which allowed them to tap the …

We study differences in the price paid for liquidity across banks using price data at the individual bank level. Unique … to this paper, we also have data on individual banks’ reserve requirements and actual reserve holdings, thus allowing us … on the liquidity positions of other banks, as well as its own. There is evidence that liquidity squeezes occasionally …