While the balance sheet structure of U.S. banks influences how they respond to liquidity risks, the mechanisms for the effects on and consequences for lending vary widely across banks. We demonstrate fundamental differences across banks without foreign affiliates versus those with foreign...

The primary goal of this paper is to analyze the banking sector in transition countries in Central and Eastern Europe, and identify bank's potential as an investment in the globalized environment. The primary hypothesis is that banking sector is one of the most attractive investment areas in...

Modern banking institutions were virtually non-existent in the planned economies of central Europe and the former Soviet Union. In the early transition period, banking sectors began to develop during several years of macroeconomic decline and turbulence accompanied by repeated bank crises....