financial conglomerates. We conjecture and provide evidence that the organizational complexity of the family of a bank is a … fundamental driver of the business model of the bank itself, as reflected in the management of the bank's own balance sheet. Using … change the scale of the lending channel for a large global bank by more than 30 percent. …

bank lending. We are using a dataset on assets and liabilities of commercial banks from five countries (France, Germany …

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 …

regarding the use of letters of credit and similar bank guarantees. The analysis shows that the volume of banks’ trade finance …

control for macro economic factors and firm-specific credit risk and ignored funding costs at the bank holding company level …. We contribute to the literature by examining the various sources of funding for a variety of U.S. bank holding companies …