studying bank-specific data on lending by domestically- and foreign-owned banks in Argentina and Mexico. We find that foreign …. Overall, these findings suggest that bank health, and not ownership per se, is the critical element in the growth, volatility …, and cyclicality of bank credit. Diversity in ownership appears to contribute to greater stability of credit in times of …

This paper provides evidence on what affects the marginal cost and availability of bank credit for firms in Argentina … information generated in relationships is not. To capture the closeness of bank relationships, we resort to the concentration of … bank credit and the number of credit lines in a bank. We also consider public information available in the Central de …

information asymmetries in the banking sector, it also may have contributed to the contraction in bank lending observed during …