taking place for retail banking. Data on cross-border retail bank flows, cross-border bank mergers and the law of one price … reveal no evidence of integration in retail banking. This paper shows that the previous tests of bank integration are weak in … that they are not based on an equilibrium concept and are neither necessary nor sufficient statistics for bank integration …

competitor banks for any given bank, and analyze the impact of this variable on banks’ risk-taking behavior, using a large sample … bank bail-outs on banks' risk-taking behavior. -- Government bail-out ; implicit and explicit government guarantees …