reduce their lending to developing countries in the event of a financial crisis. The analysis combines a bank-level dataset … of bank activity and ownership with country-level data on the stock of historical crisis events between 1800 and 2005. To … different types of crises. The question of learning is also examined from the perspective of other measures of bank performance …

banks with foreign affiliates for the years 2002-2011, we study bank internationalization before and during the crisis. Our …