This study investigates the implications of cross-country differences in banking regulation and supervision for the … international subsidiary locations and risk of U.S. bank holding companies (BHCs). We find that U.S. BHCs are more likely to operate … subsidiaries in countries with weaker regulation and supervision and that such location decisions are associated with elevated BHC …

-specific variables. Data on regulation, supervision and monitoring variables, and activity restrictions are from the most recent Bank … Regulation and Supervision Survey database conducted by the World Bank, published 2012. Besides these we incorporate bank size … banks from 21 European Union countries for the post-crisis year 2010, controlling for bank-specific and country …

The new prudential regulation framework, established by the European Central Bank (ECB) after the financial crisis … prudential regulation framework. By using a sample of the listed bank of fifteen European Union countries over the period 1997 … essential to assess bank's vulnerability to consider also the value of intangibles. We contribute to this literature by …

bank liquidity creation and these liquidity-reducing effects are smaller among more profitable banks and larger among …

Reforms of financial regulation after the crisis of 2007-2009 raise the question of what is the relation between … financial regulators and competition authorities. Should competition authorities play a role in financial regulation? Should …-specific regulation involves authorities actually prescribing desired modes of behavior. The ongoing nature of relations makes regulators …

This paper offers a critical survey of the swings in banking regulation, notably with reference to leverage and risk …

from the most recent (2011-2012) World Bank survey on banking supervision and regulation. Key observations emerging from … about the current status of banking regulation and supervision. Our unique starting point for answering that question comes … from the fact that 20 years ago we developed the first detailed, multi-country database on banking regulation and …

This paper analyses “banking-as-a-service” and “beyond banking”, two emerging bank competition strategies. These … risks that call for adequate regulatory responses along a dual track. First, it is argued that regulation of the disruptive …

Confidential examination files show that the likelihood of a bank to voluntarily choose to be externally audited under … with bank examiners …