The present study conducts an economic assessment of the impact financial services liberalization on foreign bank presence, in the context of the World Trade Organization (WTO). It focuses on how the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) affects foreign direct investment (FDI) of...

"This book focuses on the relationship between FDI and FS liberalization in the context of the WTO. By conducting an economic assessment on the extent of GATS liberalization in one type of FS --commercial banking -- it seeks to empirically clarify if the multilateral liberalization efforts under...

This book focuses on the relationship between FDI and financial service liberalization in the context of the WTO. By conducting an economic assessment on the extent of GATS liberalization in commercial banking it seeks to empirically clarify if the multilateral liberalization efforts under the...

This paper investigates how banks’ loan pricing responds to the environmental performance of borrowing companies. Using a unique hand-collected dataset of bank loans in China, we find that banks reward borrowers that have higher environmental responsibility scores with lower loan interest...