The global financial crisis and the related sharp reduction in cross-border credit have reignited the debate about the risks of financial globalization. We use loan-level data on lending by the largest international banks to their various countries of operation to examine how banks reduced...

The Global Financial Crisis has shown that the international financial system is vulnerable to breakdown. The financial trilemma demonstrates that financial stability, international banking and national financial supervision cannot be combined. National supervisors force international banks to...

We identify, measure and compare the characteristics of Global Systemically Important Banks (G-SIBs) vis-à-vis banks not chosen by the Financial Stability Board (FSB) to be in the 2011 G-SIB group; investors' responses to banks being classified as a G-SIB and how these responses relate to...

Introduction : policy diffusion and anti-money laundering -- Money laundering and anti-money laundering -- An indirect test of effectiveness -- A direct test of effectiveness -- Blacklisting -- Socialization and competition -- Conclusions : implications for scholarship and policy

The global financial crisis has reignited the debate about the risks of financial globalisation, in particular the international transmission of financial shocks. We use data on individual loans by the largest international banks to their various countries of operations to examine whether...