financial inclusion in Cambodia. Based on a difference-in-difference analysis on bank and microfinance supervisory data, results …

We explore the global footprint of Chinese banks and compare it with that of other bank nationalities. Chinese banks … across all bank nationalities, we find that larger distances deter cross-border bank lending to EMDEs more than to AEs. For …

region that most relies on informal financial services, and which has the largest uptake of mobile banking. We find robust … be associated with greater resort to informal financial services compared with formal, bank-based access. This highlights …

We examine how bank competition in the run-up to the 2007-2009 crisis affects banks' systemic risk during the crisis …. We then investigate whether this effect is influenced by two key bank characteristics: securitization and bank capital …. Using a sample of the largest listed banks from 15 countries, we find that greater market power at the bank level and higher …

orientation, pressures on funding models and entity structures could affect the efficiency of capital flows through the bank …

). We use detailed individual-level survey data, combined with key country-level indicators of bank competition and … financial soundness, to study the effect on the adoption of several financial products (bank accounts, credit and debit cards …, and bank loans). We find that more competition tends to increase the probability of access to these financial products. On …

Mercosur? The objective of this paper is to answer this question by analyzing changes in bank behavior after crises in the … Mercosur region. To our knowledge, this is the first paper to apply the convergence methodology-which is common in the growth … literature-to post-crisis bank behavior. Using a panel dataset of commercial banks during the period 1990-2006, we analyze the …

An important role for bank capital is that of a buffer against unexpected losses. As uncertainty about these losses … increases, the theory predicts an increase in the optimal level of bank capital. This paper investigates this implication … reduction in bank capital ratios of slightly over 1 percentage point. However, I also find suggestive evidence that the …