Patterns in cross-border banking have changed since the global financial crisis. This may affect domestic bank market … modes of cross-border banking impact bank concentration. I use a two- country general equilibrium model with heterogeneous … banking sector on bank market structures. The model suggests that both cross-border lending and bank FDI mitigate …

We study how differences in bank regulation influence cross-border bank acquisition flows and the share price reactions … positive and larger when acquirers come from more restrictive bank regulatory environments. We interpret this evidence as more …

The nexus between ownership and competition in the banking sector is a major concern to policymakers around the world … but one that is rarely comprehensively examined. For 131 countries and 13 years we match bank ownership with over 50 …,000 bank-year estimates of individual bank market power. We find that ownership does not explain market power at the individual …