Theory suggests that bank integration (financial integration generally) can magnify or dampen the business cycles … that bank integration across U.S. states over the late 1970s and 1980 dampened economic volatility within states …. Internationally, however, we find that foreign bank integration, which advanced widely during the 1990s, has been either unrelated to …

the ownership structure of Mexico's banks. For instance, while in 1991 only one percent of bank assets in Mexico were … been as rapid or as far-reaching as in Mexico. In this work we examine some of the important implications of foreign bank … fact, two distinct conceptual frameworks through which one can assess the impact of foreign bank entry. One is concerned …

studying bank-specific data on lending by domestically- and foreign-owned banks in Argentina and Mexico. We find that foreign …. Overall, these findings suggest that bank health, and not ownership per se, is the critical element in the growth, volatility …, and cyclicality of bank credit. Diversity in ownership appears to contribute to greater stability of credit in times of …

-of-second-to-last-resort". Using daily supervisory bank balance sheet information, we find that U.S. GSIBs modestly increase their dollar liquidity … broker-dealer subsidiaries within the same bank holding company are crucial to this type of "reserve-draining" intermediation …

effects from cross-border bank takeovers with those of cross-border lending by banks located overseas, which in most cases …

This paper documents the changing international exposures of U.S. bank balance sheets since the mid-1980s. U.S. banks … influence on U.S. bank cross-border and local claims. The cross-border claims of U.S. banks on European customers tend to be …

money relative to bank assets than nonbanking-center countries. This paper develops a stylized model of regulated bank …

type of hidden capital and each class of bank, the model develops estimates of the stock-market, interest-rate, foreign …-exchange, and real estate sensitivities of returns to bank stockholders. Only the stock-market sensitivities prove significant at … five percent. This finding leads us to investigate what happens when we analyze Japanese bank stock returns by means of …