This paper examines the implications of foreign bank penetration on economic growth from the perspective of resource … allocation in host countries. We use aggregate banking data, constructed from bank-level balance sheets and income statement … effect of gross fixed capital formation on output growth is higher in an economy with a more pronounced level of foreign bank …

We report evidence that bank liquidity ratios (liquid assets as a percentage of total assets) decrease during the … is into place: a one-unit increase in an index of securities market liberalization leads to a drop in the bank liquidity …

social strata. This paper analyzes the determinants of credit using an extensive bank level panel dataset. As relevant …

This paper examines empirically the role of bank market power as an internal factor influencing banks’ reaction in … sectors over the period 1997-2010. Market power is estimated at the bank-year level, using a method that allows the efficient … estimation of marginal cost of banks also at the bank-year level. The findings show that banks with even moderate levels of …