A review of the 2007-2008 financial crisis is conducted. We synthesize the insights provided by literature on the impact of this crisis on the United States and other countries. The extant literature on the policies undertaken by policymakers in United States and Europe and their global impact...

The “conventional wisdom” in academic and policy circles argues that, while large and foreign banks are generally not interested in serving SMEs, small and niche banks have an advantage because they can overcome SME opaqueness through relationship lending. This paper shows that there is a...

This paper analyzes the effects of capital controls and crises on financial integration, using stocks from emerging economies that trade in both domestic and international markets. The cross-market premium (the ratio between the domestic and the international market price of cross-listed stocks)...