This paper assembles a bank-level dataset covering the operations of 38 international banks from eight industrial … regions. The paper also finds a substantial home bias in the international allocation of bank assets, relative to the results … substantial, albeit largely unexploited by current bank expansion strategies. These results suggest that international …

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 …

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

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 … literature-to post-crisis bank behavior. Using a panel dataset of commercial banks during the period 1990-2006, we analyze the … impact of crises on four sets of financial indicators of bank behavior-profitability, maturity preference, credit supply, and …