While both size and complexity are important for the largest U.S. bank holding companies (BHCs), specific types of … complex has declined. Favorable tax treatment locations still attract a significant share of the foreign bank and nonbank …

International financial linkages, particularly through global bank flows, generate important questions about the …. Empirical tests of the trilemma support this view that global bank effects are heterogeneous and that the primary drivers of …

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 …