, those with less than $100 million in assets. This drop in the number of small banks is not due to bank failures. Despite the … severity of the crisis, the rate at which a bank exits the industry, either due to failure or acquisition, is similar to that …

This paper examines the impact of bank ownership on credit growth in developing countries before and during the 2008 …-2009 crisis. Using bank-level data for countries in Eastern Europe and Latin America, it analyzes the growth of banks' total gross … government-owned bank credit growth across regions. In Eastern Europe, foreign bank total lending fell by more than domestic …