institutions. The first comparative study of foreign banking in prewar China, the book surveys the impact of British overseas bank …

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 …

a syndicate rather than partner with a foreign-owned bank, and they demonstrate different motivations when extending SLs …