decreased after foreign bank entry. Moreover, while the reduction in interest rates of domestic banks is more pronounced in the …

Policy makers often decide to liberalize foreign bank entry but put limitations on the mode of entry. We study how …

Policy makers often decide to liberalize foreign bank entry but at the same time restrict the mode of entry. We study …

Bank regulation differs across countries. We show that these differences provide incentives to lend across the border …. In a theoretical model we derive the foreign bank's credit supply function, showing that in the case of regulatory … differences the closer firms are to the border the more likely a foreign bank is to offer them a loan. This hypothesis is …

Policy makers often decide to liberalize foreign bank entry but put limitations on the mode of entry. We study how …

Policy makers often decide to liberalize foreign bank entry but at the same time restrict the mode of entry. We study …

Policy makers often decide to liberalize foreign bank entry but put limitations on the mode of entry. We study how …

Why do banks remain passive? In a model of bank-firm relationship we study the trade-off a bank faces when having … defaulting firms declared bankrupt. First, the bank receives a payoff if a firm is liquidated. Second, it provides information … about a firm's type to its competitors. Thereby, asymmetric information between banks is reduced and bank competition …

are better able to evaluate a project's risk than entrepreneurs. We study the bank's choice between screening and … collateralization in a model where banks do not have this superior screening skill. In particular, we study the effect of bank … competition on this choice. We find that competing banks use collateral less often than a monopolistic bank because competition …