. While in most other countries foreign bank entry took the form of direct takeover or majority shareholding, foreign …

A banking system module is incorporated into the Central Bank of Barbados's multisectoral macroeconomic forecasting … model, and a medium-term forecast is generated for bank capitalization, profitability, liquidity and nonperforming loans …

Superior information exchanged over the course of lending relationships generates bank-client specificities to the …. Negative shocks, associated with monetary contractions or foreign entry, cause a reallocation of bank credit away from more … transparent borrowers and toward more opaque, more captured borrowers. The paper applies these ideas to the analysis of bank …

A rapidly growing empirical literature is studying the causes and consequences of bank fragility in present …

foreign bank lending, for both the creditor and borrower countries of Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe (CESE). We … develop a picture of bank claims on 13 CESE countries by combining credit statistics from several sources. Our constructed …

We use bank level data to study the efficiency of banks in Sub-Saharan African middle-income countries and provide …

interest rate spreads and margins in Armenia using a bank-level panel dataset for the period 2002 to 2006. We find that bank …-specific factors, such as bank size, liquidity, and market power, as well as the market structure within which banks operate, explain a …