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 …

This paper revisits trends in bank privatization and analyzes their economic impact over the past 25 years. Building on … a novel data set of privatization events for 70 developed and developing countries, it shows that bank privatization … smaller in that the fraction of a bank's ownership relinquished during privatization events declined. The majority of …

From 2000-2006 U.S. house prices and mortgage credit grew while the relative cost of mortgage credit fell …) shocks: an increased inow of global savings into the United States, and innovations in the securitization of mortgage credit …. I model the interaction of financially constrained commercial banks and mortgage securitizers, generating a novel …