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 …

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 …

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 …

to previously published estimates. Nevertheless, our stepwise estimation strategy exemplifies the importance of …

In this paper we analyse the bank merger between DnB and Gjensidige Bank in 2003, ranked by market share as number one … and number three in the Norwegian bank market. Focusing on loans to firms, our difference-in-differences analysis shows no … unaffected markets, but this relationship is weak and not statistically significant. The merger also affected the riskiness of …

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 …