This paper revisits trends in bank privatization and analyzes their economic impact over the past 25 years. Building on … a novel data set of privatization events for 70 developed and developing countries, it shows that bank privatization … smaller in that the fraction of a bank's ownership relinquished during privatization events declined. The majority of …

firm-bank data in a difference-in-differences setting with sample selection adjustment, the authors find a short … with access to bank credit prior to Basel III implementation could have been affected less than firms that were initially … on the fringes of financial inclusion-firms with only a bank account. The paper fails to find any additional …

Cross-border banking in emerging markets and developing economies has expanded across most World Bank regions and has … become large relative to some home and host economies. This paper analyzes recent trends of bank activities of financial …