This paper examines the impact of bank ownership on credit growth in developing countries before and during the 2008 …-2009 crisis. Using bank-level data for countries in Eastern Europe and Latin America, it analyzes the growth of banks' total gross … government-owned bank credit growth across regions. In Eastern Europe, foreign bank total lending fell by more than domestic …

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 …

Previous empirical analyses have found that bank privatizations are more successful when the government fully … relinquishes control, when the bank is privatized to a strategic investor, and when foreign-owned banks are allowed to participate … in the bidding. The privatization of Uganda Commercial Bank (UCB) to the South African bank Stanbic met all these …

This paper describes the recent trends in foreign bank ownership in developing countries, summarizes the existing … evidence on the causes and implications of foreign bank presence, and reexamines the link between banking crises and foreign … bank participation. Using data on the share of banking sector assets held by foreign banks in over 100 developing countries …

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 …

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