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Banking across borders
Niepmann, Friederike - 2013
Banking across borders has risen substantially over the past two decades. Yet there is significant heterogeneity in the 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009740267
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Multinational banks’ deleveraging in the crisis driven by pre-crisis characteristics and behavior
Frey, Rainer - 2015
After the collapse of Lehman Brothers, a rapid and far-reaching shrinkage of international banks’ assets with a focus on foreign claims took place. For the largest 67 German banking groups, we find that both their characteristics and behavior in the pre-crisis episode had repercussions for the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011299079
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Competition for internal funds within multinational banks : foreign affiliate lending in the crisis
Kerl, Cornelia; Frey, Rainer - 2012
We investigate how the lending activities of a multinational bank’s affiliates located abroad are affected by funding difficulties in view of the financial crisis. For this, we consider transaction-induced changes in long-term lending to the private sector of 40 countries by the affiliates of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009625687
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Broken relationships : de-risking by correspondent banks and international trade
Borchert, Lea; Haas, Ralph de; Kirschenmann, Karolin; … - 2023
financial crime regulation) to assess how payment disruptions impede cross-border trade. Using firm-level export data from … borrowers start to export less. This trade decline occurs on both the extensive and intensive margins, and firms only partially … enables firms in less-developed countries to export to richer parts of the world. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014472294
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International banking and liquidity risk transmission : lessons from across countries
Buch, Claudia M.; Goldberg, Linda S. - 2014
Activities of international banks have been at the core of discussions on the causes and effects of the international financial crisis. Yet, we know little about the actual magnitudes and mechanisms for transmission of liquidity shocks through international banks, including the reasons for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010393856
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Changing forces of gravity : how the crisis affected international banking
Buch, Claudia M.; Neugebauer, Katja; Schröder, Christoph - 2013
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010211966
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Cross-border lending and the international transmission of banking crises
Dieckelmann, Daniel - 2020
This paper introduces a new transmission channel of banking crises where sizable cross-border bank claims on foreign countries with high domestic crisis risk enable contagion to the home economy. This asset-side channel opposes traditional views that see banking crises originating from either...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012242495
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Diversification and determinants of international credit portfolios : evidence from German banks
Böninghausen, Benjamin; Köhler, Matthias - 2012
This paper examines the international credit portfolios of German banks. We construct a bank-country panel from a unique dataset for a representative set of countries and ask why banks leave diversification opportunities unexploited in some countries. Controlling for bank heterogeneity, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009656123
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Global payment disruptions and firm-level exports
Haas, Ralph de; Kirschenmann, Karolin; Schultz, Alison - 2022
financial crime regulation - to assess how payment disruptions impede cross-border trade. Using firm-level export data from … borrowers start to export less. This trade decline occurs on both the extensive and intensive margins and firms do not …-developed countries to export to richer parts of the world. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013474503
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Cutting the credit line : evidence from Germany
Goldbach, Stefan; Nitsch, Volker - 2015
The massive decline in international trade in 2008/09 is often attributed to the global deterioration in financial conditions after the bankruptcy of a US investment bank, Lehman Brothers. This paper examines the association between external finance and firm activity in Germany in more detail....
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