participating in the global market of inter-bank syndicated loans. The network statistics used are indegree, outdegree, betweenness … 1980–2007, and finds that the level of financial integration of the average bank in a country is a robust determinant of … crises, betweenness is associated with a lower incidence. That is, the more important is the average bank of a country to the …

banks with foreign affiliates for the years 2002-2011, we study bank internationalization before and during the crisis. Our …

techniques on BIS data of bank foreign claims in 178 countries in 2006, evidence of positive spatial autocorrelation under … a spatial autoregressive gravity model. The results obtained support that the operation of a spatial lag leads to …

We assess the evolution of international banking integration at the light of gravity equations on banks’ bilateral … rest of the world, the banking integration has strengthened since the financial crisis. …

banks with foreign affiliates for the years 2002-2011, we study bank internationalization before and during the crisis. Our …

banks with foreign affiliates for the years 2002-2011, we study bank internationalization before and during the crisis. Our …

banks with foreign affiliates for the years 2002-2011, we study bank internationalization before and during the crisis. Our …

and bank asset holdings, which yield gravity equations that can be tested empirically. We then use these models to test … contributions to the empirical literature in international economics. These contributions argue that single-equation gravity models … suffer from an endogeneity bias, culminating in a request for the estimation of systems of gravity equations. Yet, the …