We explore the global footprint of Chinese banks and compare it with that of other bank nationalities. Chinese banks …. But differences remain. Using a gravity model with a novel measure of distance capturing the role of foreign affiliates … across all bank nationalities, we find that larger distances deter cross-border bank lending to EMDEs more than to AEs. For …

Based on an empirical gravity model of sectoral bilateral trade, we uncover three features of bilateral trade balances …. First, the difficulty of gravity models in fitting the observed level of bilateral balances is likely due to the presence of …

We analyze trade dynamics following past episodes of financial crises. Using an augmented gravity model and 179 crisis …, on average-and this decline is persistent, with imports recovering to their gravity-predicted levels only after 10 years …

identifies some key patterns of cross-border investment in bank subsidiaries by key banking groups in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA …) and discusses some of the determinants of this investment. Using a gravity model relating the annual value of a banking …

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