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 …

-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 …

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

-developed countries to export to richer parts of the world. …

enables firms in less-developed countries to export to richer parts of the world. …

Activities of international banks have been at the core of discussions on the causes and effects of the international … international banks, including the reasons for heterogeneity in transmission across banks. The International Banking Research … Network (IBRN), established in 2012, brings together researchers from around the world with access to micro-data on individual …

The global financial crisis has brought to an end a rather unprecedented period of banks’ international expansion. We … analyze the effects of the crisis on international banking. Using a detailed dataset on the international assets of all German … banks with foreign affiliates for the years 2002-2011, we study bank internationalization before and during the crisis. Our …