This paper uses a large panel of bilateral bank flow data to assess how institutions and politics affect international capital -bank in particular- flows. The following key findings emerge: 1) The empirical "gravity" model is the benchmark in explaining the volume of international banking...

We analyse the distribution of the TARGET cross-border interbank payment flows, from both a crosssection and time series point of view, using average daily data for the period 1999-2002. We find out that first, location mattersʺ, in the sense that bilateral payment flows seem to reflect an...

This paper uses a large panel of bilateral bank flow data to assess how institutions and politics affect international capital - bank in particular - flows. The following key findings emerge: 1) The empirical "gravity" model is the benchmark in explaining the volume of international banking...