international and global activities of banks across countries. This paper develops and tests a theoretical model that explains this … variation from an international trade theory perspective. In the model, banking across borders arises from differences in factor … differential effects of capital account and banking sector liberalization on banks' foreign positions and international capital …

bank internationalization. Second, only a few non-financial firms engage in international trade, but many banks hold …-financial firms. This study tests whether a productivity pecking order also determines international banking activities. Using a novel … dataset that contains all German banks' international activities, we estimate the ordered probability of a presence abroad …

profit shifting channels different from those of other firms. We propose a novel and bank-specific method of profit shifting … bank, we show that a one percentage point lower corporate tax rate increases banks'fixed-income trading assets by 4.0% and …

This paper estimates ordered logit and probit regression models for bank ratings which also include a country index to … capture country-specific variation. The empirical findings provide support to the hypothesis that the individual international … bank ratings assigned by Fitch Ratings are underpinned by fundamental quantitative financial analyses. Also, there is …

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 … that those parent banks reported significant financial weaknesses prior to closing their international operations …

of a major international bank to third-country counter parties during the recent crisis may thus result in persistently …-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 clients, and on the literature on foreign direct investment (FDI), which emphasizes …

untraded consumer goods in an uncertain productive environment, borrowing funds from a bank in either the home or the foreign … of bank failure is partly borne by taxpayers in the bank's home countries. Moreover, each bank chooses the share of its … lending allocated between domestic and foreign firms, but the bank's overall loan volume is fixed by a capital requirement set …

international bank sector does not react. Non-OFC islands on the other hand do show strong negative reactions. Similar (non … on OFCs. These results indicate that international regulation attempts that aim at forcing OCFs to provide information on …