developing world, and suggest further areas for research in the political economy of globalization …Financial sectors in the developing world pressure governments to open capital accounts, a policy which standard … restrictions in the developing world, and by examining interest group pressures for financial internationalization in Indonesia …

This paper presents recent trends in bank ownership across countries and summarizes the evidence regarding the … implications of bank ownership structure for bank performance and competition, financial stability, and access to finance. The … the impact of government bank ownership suggests few benefits, especially for developing countries …

supervisory power. Our findings contribute to the literature examining bank internationalization and have several policy …

. However, central bank's independence and economic independence have a statistically significant effect on financial stability …, whereas central bank accountability, supervisory independence and accountability, political central bank independence as well …

Cross-border bank lending is a growing source of external finance in developing countries and could play a key role for …

We study the role of the bank-lending channel in propagating fluctuations in commodity prices to credit aggregates and … transmission of changes in international commodity prices to domestic bank lending. Identification relies on a bankspecific time …-varying measure of bank sensitivity to changes in commodity prices, based on daily data on bank stock prices. We find that a fall in …