This paper provides evidence of deliberate private-information disclosure within banks’ international business networks …. Using supervisory trade-level data, we show that banks with closer ties to a target advisor in a takeover buy more stocks of … find such effects for bank connections to acquirer advisors or for trades in acquirer stocks. Target advisors benefit from …

Despite the ongoing consolidation trend in the banking industry and the attention some mergers (in particular between … assumptions, e.g. connectivity, contagion channel and the merger process, on different static and dynamic stability measures. We … systems. Our main finding is that merger activities can stabilize or destabilize the modelled financial network, depending on …

-level data on the international activities of all German banks with publicly available bank micro data from possible destination … are more likely to enter foreign markets by means of foreign direct investment. We combine detailed proprietary bank …

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 …-sectional predictions. -- Cross-border banking ; international capital flows ; trade in banking services …

results suggest that banks’ shadow costs of capital are important for the international propagation of shocks through FX …

We exploit proprietary information on severed correspondent banking relationships (due to the stricter enforcement of … emerging Europe, we show that when local respondent banks lose access to correspondent banking services, their corporate … enables firms in less-developed countries to export to richer parts of the world. …