One of the most salient features of the 2007-9 global financial crisis was the role played by global banking and multinational banks in transmitting international financial shocks and maintaining credit stability in domestic and international financial markets. This edited volume on "Global...

This paper examines the relationship between increased consolidation in banking and monetary policy transmission in eighteen Asian and Latin American economies, using bank-level data from 1996 to 2006. Our results provide consistent evidence that as concentration in banking increases, the bank...

This paper examines how banking competition affects the transmission of monetary policy through the bank lending channel. We apply a two-step estimation procedure using bank-level panel data for commercial banks in 10 Asian and 10 Latin American countries during the period from 1996 to 2006. In...

This paper addresses the impact of monetary policy on banks' risk-taking levels by using the bank-level panel data from more than 1000 banks in 33 emerging economies during 2000-2012. We find that, consistent with the proposition of the “bank risk-taking channel” of monetary policy...

We investigate the impact of market power of banks on their risk-taking, using bank-level data from 35 emerging economies during the period of 2000-2014. We set up a semiparametric model of the market power-bank risk nexus, and conduct estimation applying the Bayesian inference, which provides...

This paper investigates the competition-stability puzzle in the banking market and provides new consolidating evidence at the bank level. Using bank-level data from 35 emerging economies during the period of 2000-2014, we investigate the impact of market power of banks on their risk-taking...

We investigate whether foreign bank penetration affects the risk-taking of domestic banks in emerging economies. By using bank-level data from 35 markets during the period of 2000-2014, we find significant evidence that the riskiness of domestic banks increases with the presence of foreign...