We document that the deregulation of bank branching restrictions in the United States triggered a reallocation across … bank access to branching affects the sectoral specialization of output, in a manner that depends on the variance …

This paper builds a dataset on bank ownership that covers more than 6,500 banks in 181 countries (59 low … reversed these trends. At the country level, the relationship between bank ownership and each of GDP growth and financial depth …. Bank-level regressions show that state-owned banks are less profitable and have a higher share of non-performing loans than …

This paper introduces a new transmission channel of banking crises where sizable cross-border bank claims on foreign …

Using Bank for International Settlements (BIS) data on cross-border bank flows across 128 countries and over two … decades, we find that heightened bank flows are associated with improved financial stability in a recipient country's bank … in less concentrated banking sectors. Higher bank flows are also associated with improvements in bank asset quality …

more lax lending policies than banks, we unveil important evidence that nonbanks increased bank borrowing following the …

a significant impact on international bank lending. Balance sheet characteristics play an important role in determining …

instruments to study international spillovers of prudential policy changes for bank lending growth. The collective analysis has … three main findings. First, prudential instrument effects sometimes spill over across borders through bank lending. Second …, international spillovers vary across prudential instruments and are heterogeneous across banks. Bank-specific factors like balance …