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Foreign Banks : Trends, Impact and Financial Stability
Claessens, Stijn - 2012
This paper introduces a comprehensive database on bank ownership for 137 countries over 1995-2009, and reviews foreign bank behavior and impact. It documents substantial increases in foreign bank presence, with many more home and host countries. Current market shares of foreign banks average 20...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013116464
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What is Real and What is Not in the Global FDI Network?
Damgaard, Jannick - 2020
Macro statistics on foreign direct investment (FDI) are blurred by offshore centers withenormous inward and outward investment positions. This paper uses several new datasources, both macro and micro, to estimate the global FDI network while disentangling realinvestment and phantom investment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012843512
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Bank Ownership : Trends and Implications
Cull, Robert - 2017
This paper presents recent trends in bank ownership across countries and summarizes the evidence regarding the implications of bank ownership structure for bank performance and competition, financial stability, and access to finance. The evidence reviewed suggests that foreign-owned banks are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012957838
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The Transmission of Liquidity Shocks : The Role of Internal Capital Markets and Bank Funding Strategies
Karam, Philippe D. - 2014
We analyze the transmission of bank-specific liquidity shocks triggered by a credit rating downgrade through the lending channel. Using bank-level data for US Bank Holding Companies, we find that a credit rating downgrade is associated with an immediate and persistent decline in access to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013039553
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The Great Cross-Border Bank Deleveraging : Supply Constraints and Intra-Group Frictions
Cerutti, Eugenio - 2014
International banks greatly reduced their direct cross-border and local affiliates' lending as the global financial crisis strained balance sheets, lowered borrower demand, and changed government policies. Using bilateral, lender-borrower countrydata and controlling for credit demand, we show...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013045260
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Foreign Banks and Credit Dynamics in Cesee
Arakelyan, Maria - 2018
We use bank-level data on 16 CESEE economies over 2005-2014 to assess the role of foreign banks in the region's credit dynamics. We confirm that macroeconomic fundamentals of both host and home countries matter, as do the bank and parent bank characteristics. Moreover, we take a new approach by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012929914
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The Internationalization of China's Equity Markets
Cortina Lorente, Juan Jose; Schmukler, Sergio L.; Xiao, … - 2023
China’s equity markets internationalization process started in the early 2000s but accelerated after 2012, when Chinese firms’ shares listed in Shanghai and Shenzhen gradually became available to international investors. This paper studies the effects of the post-2012 internationalization...
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Guaranteeing Trade in a Severe Crisis : Cash Collateral Over Bank Guarantees
Kotidis, Antonis; MacDonald, Margaux; Malliaropulos, … - 2023
Banks guarantee international trade through letters of credit. This paper analyzes what happens to trade when the critical role of banks as trade guarantors is compromised. Using the case of the Greek capital controls in 2015, the events around which led to a massive loss of confidence in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014256876
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Foreign Banks : Trends, Impact and Financial Stability
Claessens, Stijn - 2012
This paper introduces a comprehensive database on bank ownership for 137 countries over 1995-2009, and reviews foreign bank behavior and impact. It documents substantial increases in foreign bank presence, with many more home and host countries. Current market shares of foreign banks average 20...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013111348
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Education Systems and Foreign Direct Investment : Does External Efficiency Matter?
Wendlassida Miningou, Elise - 2017
This paper examines the effect of the efficiency of the education system on Foreign Direct Investment (FDI). First, it … focuses on the external efficiency and applies a frontier-based measure as a proxy of the ability of countries to optimally … efficiency of the education system and FDI inflows by applying GMM regression technique. The results show that the efficiency …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012956477