institutions. The first comparative study of foreign banking in prewar China, the book surveys the impact of British overseas bank …As China emerges as a global powerhouse, this timely book examines its economic past and the shaping of its financial … notes on China's economy before the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War in 1937. Focusing on the two leading British banks in …

bank-level dataset to assess at a quarterly frequency how changes in the U.S. Federal funds rate (before the crisis) and … the existence of a potent global bank lending channel. In response to changes in U.S. monetary conditions, U.S. banks … strongly adjust their cross-border claims in both the pre and post-crisis period. However, we also find that U.S. bank …

International financial linkages, particularly through global bank flows, generate important questions about the …. Empirical tests of the trilemma support this view that global bank effects are heterogeneous and that the primary drivers of …