We investigate the impact of global and local crises on bank stability in the MENA region and examine the effect of … owning bank subsidiaries in other countries. We consider banks that experienced both types of crises during our sample period …. Our findings highlight a negative impact of the Global Financial Crisis of 2007-2008 on bank stability but, on the whole …

Though overall bank performance from July 2007 to December 2008 was the worst since the Great Depression, there is … significant variation in the cross-section of stock returns of large banks across the world during that period. We use this …, except that large banks from countries with more restrictions on bank activities performed better and decreased loans less …

study examining the effect of the pandemic on bank systemic risk. We find the pandemic increases systemic risk across … countries. The effect operates through government policy and bank default risk channels. Additional analysis suggests that the …-to-asset, undercapitalized, and low network centrality banks. However, this effect is moderated by formal bank regulation (e.g., deposit …

concentration indices (k bank concentration ratios (CR5) and the Herfindahl-Hirschman indices (HHI)).Empirical analysis shows that …

Given the recent traumatic events in the world's banking industry it is important to understand what drives bankers to …-border bank M&As are materially different from those banks targeted in domestic M&A deals. To address this question we use a … sample of over 24,000 banks from more than 100 countries. We begin by estimating the probability that a bank will be a M …