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 … bank ratings assigned by Fitch Ratings are underpinned by fundamental quantitative financial analyses. Also, there is … strong evidence of a country effect. Our model is shown to provide accurate predictions of bank ratings for the period prior …

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 …

of a major international bank to third-country counter parties during the recent crisis may thus result in persistently … lower volumes of outward FDI from the bank's home market. -- outward sector-level FDI ; banks ; asymmetric information …

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 …

large parts of the world. In this paper we explore the financial and the trade channel in a unified framework and quantify …, resulting in larger cumulated output losses and a prolonged crisis particularly in the UK. Stricter enforcement of bank capital …

bank interventions. Evidence robustly shows that interventions do indeed move the exchange rate level in the desired … central banks and going with the market and fundamentals. --Foreign exchange ; central bank intervention ; high-frequency data …