This paper provides insights into the determinants of currency choice in cross-border bank lending, such as bilateral distance, financial and trade linkages to issuer countries of major currencies, and invoicing currency patterns. Cross-border bank lending in US dollars, and particularly in...

Studies of intermediated arbitrage argue that bank balance sheets are an important consideration, yet little evidence exists on banks' positioning in this context. Using confidential supervisory data (covering $25 trillion in daily notional exposures) we examine banks' positions in connection...

Die 40. Auflage des gut benutzten Klassikers ist in Umfang und vor allem im Preis wesentlich erweitert (zuletzt BA 10/93). Teile des Buches wurden völlig neu konzipiert, um den tiefgreifenden Veränderungen in der nationalen und internationalen Finanzwirtschaft Rechnung zu tragen. Gleiches gilt...

Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Creditworthiness and credit risks -- Between promise and peril : credit and debt at the pearl fisheries of South India and Sri Lanka, c. 1800 / Sam Ostroff -- Lenders and borrowers in a non-capitalist economy : Rio de Janeiro in the early nineteenth century /...