In contrast to the literature involving U.S. bank lending domestically to U.S. firms, we find that affiliated U.S. banks' mutual funds do not increase their holdings of equity in non-U.S. borrowing firms around new loan initiations. Mutual funds affiliated with lending banks have less equity...

An influential explanation for the recent rise in the U.S. current account deficit is the boom in U.S. productivity. As U.S. productivity surged, capital was attracted to the U.S. to take advantage of the higher real returns. Using a two country general equilibrium model, this paper...

The 1998 passage of the Land Revaluation Law in Japan provided regulatory forbearance to the Japanese banks in the form of a regulatory capital infusion. We test whether this divergence from international bank capital requirements had an impact on Japanese bank lending behavior. Because this...