Since the mid-1990s, internationally active banks around the world have pursued policies to expand their presence in emerging markets. Growing volumes of cross border banking activities have triggered a burgeoning literature on financial FDI, mainly focused on merits and pitfalls of foreign-bank...

This paper uses a unique database that includes deal and bank balance sheet information for 220 cross-border acquisitions between 1994 and 2003 to analyze the characteristics and performance effects of international takeovers on target banks. A discrete choice estimation shows that banks are...

This paper investigates what factors might help explain the internationalization strategy of banks and insurance companies, by comparing the determinants of cross-border Mamp;As in the two sectors in a unified framework. The empirical analysis shows that between 1990 and 2003 the...

Having historically received very little foreign direct investment, Japan has experienced a substantial increase in such inflows in recent years. This paper analyzes the impact of the growing presence of foreign firms on the Japanese economy through detailed case studies on the automobile,...

This paper investigates the determinants of the pattern of banks' foreign investment using firm-level data on foreign subsidiaries for a representative sample of 260 large banks from the OECD countries. The empirical analysis shows that measures of the potential profit opportunities in the...

This paper investigates the determinants of the pattern of banks' foreign investment. We extended previous analyses in three directions. First, we use a unique database that includes information on 260 large banks from OECD countries and all their foreign branches and subsidiaries in each one of...

In recent years there has been a surge in mergers and aquisitions in all sectors of economic activity. Cross-border operations have followed this trend, creating global companies operating in all major world markets. In this paper we study the pattern of cross-border Mamp;As in the banking...

In 1995, Mexico introduced a price-level-adjusting unit of account called the Unidad de Inversion (UDI). Loans denominated in UDIs maintain their purchasing power and provide a real rate of return in pesos. This study examines the real rate of return earned by dollar investors in UDI mortgages...

How do local services internationalise? Executives in retail banking face the challenge of internationalising a service which is local in nature. This research proposes a new model that shows some basic similarities with previous conceptual models. However, it incorporates the uniqueness of...

Do foreign banks have an advantage operating abroad? The existing literature has come up with different answers. Studying the performance of foreign banks relative to domestic banks in a large number of countries between 1999 and 2006, we find that the answer importantly depends on a number of...