This paper studies the impact of foreign bank entry on domestic firms' access to bank credit using a within …-country staggered geographic variation in the policy of foreign bank lending in China. The paper finds that after foreign bank entry … profitable firms use more long-term bank loans; whereas firms with higher value of potential collateral do not. It also finds …

increases the return on assets but decreases the return on equity. This research highlights the importance for bank performance … of a large strategic shareholder who takes a controlling interest in the bank …

incentives of insiders to expropriate bank resources and promote bank efficiency, and are supposed to have real economic effect …

for both pooled and panel data to model bank- and country-level data for 20 CESEE countries from 1995 to 2014. Our …

Using the data of 82 Chinese commercial banks from 2000 to 2012, this paper investigates the effect of bank ownership … undertook IPO exhibit no differences in bank prudential behavior (the selection effect). Third, introducing foreign strategic … investors has not an obvious effect on bank prudential behavior, either in the short term or long term, and undertaking IPO has …

Bank holding companies and its internal capital market have been widely discussed in recent financial literature and … evidence suggests that bank holding companies have clear preferences on double leveraging. In this paper, we show the direct …

of bank complexity. Yet, surprisingly little is known about changes in complexity across countries, its drivers, and its …