impact of FDI in promoting the growth of host country exports and linkages to the outside world is clearer. The major role of … transfer of knowledge of world markets and of ways of fitting into worldwide production networks, not visible in standard …

effects of RFC assistance on bank survival. We find that the loan program had no statistically significant effect on the … of increasing the indebtedness of financial institutions and subordinating bank depositors. We find that RFC's purchases … of preferred stock - which did not increase indebtedness or subordinate depositors - increased the chances that a bank …

Although policymakers often discuss tradeoffs between bank competition and stability, past research provides differing … competition materially boosts bank risk. With respect to the mechanisms, we find that competition reduces bank profits, charter … theoretical perspectives and empirical results on the impact of competition on risk. In this paper, we employ a new approach for …