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 … bank level. However, at the country level, foreign bank ownership has a positive and significant impact on market power …

political decisions. In the event, significant international pressure and a series of bank crises in the 1990s resulted in the … privileging of foreign capital in CEE bank privatization for most of the region. The central question this study will answer is …