financial conglomerates. We conjecture and provide evidence that the organizational complexity of the family of a bank is a … fundamental driver of the business model of the bank itself, as reflected in the management of the bank's own balance sheet. Using … change the scale of the lending channel for a large global bank by more than 30 percent. …

Southeastern European countries for the period 1995-2015. We show that more foreign bank branches are present in countries that … have higher taxes and regulatory restrictions on bank activity. The increased activity of bank branches negatively affects … foreign-owned bank lending, and to a lesser extent, that of state-owned banks. We attribute this finding to the fact that …

domestic fiscal policies on cross-border bank lending. By estimating the dynamic response of U.S. cross-border bank lending …-border bank lending. The magnitude of the effect is also economically significant: the effect of 1 percent of GDP increase …

This paper studies the bank-level (size and access to funds) and market-based (interest rate, inflation rate, GDP …) variables’ impact on bank lending behavior in Turkey using quarterly bank level data of 15 private commercial banks and 3 state …

This paper studies the impact of foreign bank entry on domestic firms' access to bank credit using a within …-country staggered geographic variation in the policy of foreign bank lending in China. The paper finds that after foreign bank entry … profitable firms use more long-term bank loans; whereas firms with higher value of potential collateral do not. It also finds …

This paper builds a dataset on bank ownership that covers more than 6,500 banks in 181 countries (59 low … reversed these trends. At the country level, the relationship between bank ownership and each of GDP growth and financial depth …. Bank-level regressions show that state-owned banks are less profitable and have a higher share of non-performing loans than …

identifies some key patterns of cross-border investment in bank subsidiaries by key banking groups in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA …