This study investigates the implications of cross-country differences in banking regulation and supervision for the … international subsidiary locations and risk of U.S. bank holding companies (BHCs). We find that U.S. BHCs are more likely to operate … subsidiaries in countries with weaker regulation and supervision and that such location decisions are associated with elevated BHC …

unlikely to switch to a branch model. Even though host country supervisors do not lose all responsibility for the regulation …

significance. Our results do not point to a major role of newly introduced bank levies in explaining cross-border banking …

Economists have extensively analyzed the regulation of banks and the banking industry, but have devoted considerably … less attention to bank supervision as a distinct activity. Indeed, much of the banking literature has used the terms … "supervision" and "regulation" interchangeably. This paper provides a heuristic review of the economics literature on …

-specific variables. Data on regulation, supervision and monitoring variables, and activity restrictions are from the most recent Bank … Regulation and Supervision Survey database conducted by the World Bank, published 2012. Besides these we incorporate bank size … banks from 21 European Union countries for the post-crisis year 2010, controlling for bank-specific and country …

The paper analyzes the effects of changes to regulatory policy and to monetary policy on cross-border bank lending … since the global financial crisis. Cross-border bank lending has decreased, and the home bias in the credit portfolio of … importance of regulatory arbitrage as a driver of cross-border bank flows since the global financial crisis. However, in the euro …

towards mutual funds and stocks. These outflows amount to 2.8% of outstanding bank deposits. The empirical evidence …

second question, concerning the appropriateness of the uniformity of solvency regulation directed at banks and insurers …

second question, concerning the appropriateness of the uniformity of solvency regulation directed at banks and insurers …