We investigate how the lending activities of a multinational bank s affiliates located abroad are affected by funding difficulties in view of the financial crisis. For this, we consider transaction-induced changes in long-term lending to the private sector of 40 countries by the affiliates of...

Did policy interventions contribute to the gradual segmentation of lending markets starting with the 2007 - 2008 global financial crisis? We investigate this question in an international Cournot duopoly model under an equity constraint. Two symmetric multinational banks compete for corporate...

The financial crisis has led to a reconsideration of banks' global business models. Using a dataset derived from the BIS banking statistics, this paper studies the geography of global banking. It distinguishes between “international” and “multinational” banks, their respective funding...

We investigate how the lending activities of a multinational bank's affiliates located abroad are affected by funding difficulties in view of the financial crisis. For this, we consider transaction-induced changes in long-term lending to the private sector of 40 countries by the affiliates of...

The financial crisis has led to a reconsideration of banks' global business models. This special feature uses the BIS banking statistics to distinguish between “international” and “multinational” banks and their associated funding models. The crisis put these models to the test. In the...

We analyze the relative roles of subsidiary and parent banking group traits in driving foreign banks' lending patterns in the Central and Eastern European (CEE) region before and during the crisis. We use a bank-level dataset on Western European banking groups and their CEE subsidiaries over the...