foreign bank ownership on the performance and market power of acquired banks operating in Central and Eastern Europe. This … investors. We show that during three years after the takeover, banks have become more profitable due to cost minimization and … borrowers in terms of lower lending rates. Previous studies failed to pick up the improvements in performance of takeover banks …

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 …

Korea was hit hard by the 2008 global financial crisis, with the foreign bank deleveraging channel coming prominently … through the bank lending channel to a slowdown in credit growth. The analysis finds that a sharp decline in external funding …

The paper focuses on the impact of diversification on bank performance and how consolidation through mergers and … indigenous banks, as compared to foreign competitors in the ECCU. We then simulate bank mergers both within and across ECCU … countries by combining individual banks' balance sheets. The simulation shows that a typical indigenous bank could better …

. While in most other countries foreign bank entry took the form of direct takeover or majority shareholding, foreign …