better capturing creditor banking systems’ foreign credit exposures and borrower countries’ reliance on foreign bank … credit, by combining BIS data with bank-level data. The results indicate that the proposed refinements matter, especially … when foreign bank affiliates’ funding relies heavily on local deposits. In addition, after developing novel and necessary …

This paper documents global trends in bank activity, consolidation, internationalization, and financial firm … concentrated banking systems. We outline research directions aimed at explaining why bank consolidation and conglomeration do not …

foreign bank supervision in terms of division of responsibilities between the home and host countries, consolidated …

We use data on 1,294 banks in Central and Eastern Europe to analyze how bank ownership and creditor coordination in the …

Bank profits are high in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) compared to other regions. This paper uses a sample of 389 banks in … 41 SSA countries to study the determinants of bank profitability. We find that apart from credit risk, higher returns on … assets are associated with larger bank size, activity diversification, and private ownership. Bank returns are affected by …

of impaired bank loans. To attract risk capital, impaired loans must find market-clearing prices. However, the asymmetry …