This paper investigates the effects of home country banking regulations on the performance of foreign banks in Luxembourg's financial center. We control for the main regulatory indicators, such as capital requirements, private monitoring, official disciplinary power and restrictions on bank...

The new prudential regulation framework, established by the European Central Bank (ECB) after the financial crisis, encompasses supervisory procedures to measure and monitor banks business model, capital requirements, governance control and liquidity risk. However, research on financial...

We propose a spatial competition model to study banks' strategic responses to the asymmetric Spanish geographic deregulation process. We find that once the geographic deregulation process finishes, inter-regional mergers between savings banks are optimal whenever the economies of scale...