This paper assembles a bank-level dataset covering the operations of 38 international banks from eight industrial … countries and their subsidiaries overseas during 1995-2004, and studies the extent of diversification gains from their local … regions. The paper also finds a substantial home bias in the international allocation of bank assets, relative to the results …

exports of all five broad categories of the U.K.'s financial and insurance services. No trade barriers are found for the bulk … suggests that post-Brexit disruptions of the U.K.'s export of financial and insurance services may be minor …

This paper assesses the impact of the geographic diversification of bank holding company (BHC) assets across the United … States on their market valuations. Using two novel identification strategies based on the dynamic process of interstate bank …

still in their infancy. Similarly, despite the introduction of new private sector insurance companies coverage of insurance … public ownership in banks and insurance companies, expansion of the contractual savings system through more rapid expansion … of the insurance and pension systems, greater spread of mutual funds, and development of institutional investors. It is …

the important role of bank profitability and asset quality in driving bank-specific return connectedness …

these operations. Despite a vast literature on the topic, central bank approaches and practices vary considerably. In this …

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