foreigners. We use a bank-level panel data set spanning all British and foreign banks providing loans within the United Kingdom …We provide the first empirical tests for financial protectionism, defined as a nationalistic change in bank's lending … or credit guarantees, or reseived capital injections. We use standard empirical panel-data techniques to study effective …

foreigners. We use a bank-level panel data set spanning all British and foreign banks providing loans within the United Kingdom … or credit guarantees, or received capital injections. We use standard empirical panel-data techniques to study the 'loan … mix', domestic (British) loans of a bank expressed as a fraction of its total loan activity. We also study effective short …

influence the revenue efficiency of Malaysian domestic Islamic banks. We employ the whole gamut of domestic and foreign Islamic … indicate that the level of revenue efficiency of Malaysian domestic Islamic banks is lower compared to their foreign Islamic … of the domestic and foreign Islamic banks. In addition, by comparing both cost and profit efficiency, we can identify the …

loan contracts arranged by foreign banks in small versus large markets differ considerably …In this paper we examine the role of syndicated loan markets in financial market development in 24 European countries … markets. Syndicated loans play a different role in large versus small financial systems. In small markets, loan syndications …

We classify a large sample of banks according to the geographic diversification of their international syndicated loan … portfolio. Our results show that diversified banks maintain higher loan supply during banking crises in borrower countries. The … positive loan supply effects lead to higher investment and employment growth for firms. Diversified banks are stabilizing due …

strong determinants of credit rejections, in the crisis period bank weakness made it harder to obtain external finance for …This paper uses a unique dataset where credit rejections experienced by euro area firms are matched with firm and bank … characteristics. This allows us to study simultaneously the role that bank and firm weakness had in the credit reduction observed in …

? In this paper we address these questions by analyzing the empirical link among liberalization, crises and growth. We find ….// ¿Es la liberación benéfica para el crecimiento aunque conduzca a crisis? La respuesta es un contundente sí. Pero entonces … TLCAN? En este documento resolvemos estas preguntas basados en el análisis del vínculo entre globalización, crisis y …

consolidation of bank capital. Foreign banks have taken on most of the Bulgarian banking market. The Bulgarian banking system is … determine its development. The banking crisis of 1996-1997, the introduction of the Currency board has pushed forward the … looking stable, with a high liquidity ratio and low inherent risks. Nevertheless, the closure of one Bulgarian bank proved …