Between 1995 and 2005, foreign bank participation in Mexico rose from 2 percent of bank assets to 83 percent, as the … top five largest banks were acquired by foreigners. This paper examines the link between foreign bank acquisitions and … banking outreach. Using quarterly country, bank, and bank-municipality-level data, the authors find some contrasting patterns …

Using a unique bank-level data set on the Ugandan banking system during 1999-2005, the authors explore the factors … not find a robust and economically significant relationship between privatization, foreign bank entry, market structure …, and banking efficiency. Similarly, macroeconomic variables can explain little of the over-time variation in bank spreads …

bank performance. They argue that it is important to include indicators of all the relevant governance effects in the same … likely due to placing nonperforming loans into residual entities, leaving "good" privatized banks."--World Bank web site …

household credit is related to foreign bank ownership. In countries with higher foreign bank presence we find a stronger …