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 …

This paper analyzes bank stock prices around the world to assess the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the banking … policy announcements on the performance of bank stocks. Overall, the results suggest that the crisis and the countercyclical … lending role that banks are expected to play have put banking systems under significant stress, with bank stocks …

Interest rate caps can have far-reaching consequences on the composition and maturity of commercial bank loans and … caps of 2016. Using bank-level panel data from before and after the caps, the paper identifies a significant decline in … of commercial bank executives, and have important implications for economic growth and financial inclusion …

The costs of financial intermediation have important consequences for financial development. Using bank-level data for … 160 countries during 2005-14, this paper analyzes the composition and sources of bank net interest margins. First, it uses … underlying bank-level, structural, macroeconomic, and institutional determinants of net interest margins. Finally, the paper uses …

This paper summarizes the latest update of the World Bank Bank Regulation and Supervision Survey. The paper explores … and summarizes the evolution in bank capital regulations, capitalization of banks, market discipline, and supervisory … crisis. Bank supervision became stricter and more complex compared with the pre-global financial crisis period. However …