foreign currency bank lending. We show that the patterns differ sharply across foreign currencies. The Swiss franc is used …

countries where firms borrowed more from domestic banks ("domestic bank dependence") than in countries where firms borrowed more … vulnerable to global banking shocks. We confirm, using a calibrated quantitative model, that domestic bank dependence makes …

U.S. banking crisis of the 20th century. Our systemic risk measure captures both the credit risk of an individual bank … as well as a bank's position in the network. We construct linkages between all U.S. commercial banks in 1929 and 1934 so … banking crisis that occurred between 1930-33 raised systemic risk per bank by 33% and increased the riskiness of the very …

Japanese banking crisis. By leveraging a unique dataset merging firm-level financial statements and bank balance sheets, the …

restrictions upon foreign bank entry and foreign ownership have been affectively abolished. Using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA … banks have used size as a barrier to entry to the new entrants in the post-deregulation period. Furthermore, bank efficiency … seems to have increased post-deregulation and the competition resulting from diversity in bank types was important to prompt …

We analyze the microeconomic determinants of cross-border bank acquisitions in 16 transition economies over the period … less efficient banks. This result is in line with the efficiency hypothesis. -- Cross-border bank acquisitions ; latent …