Cross-border bank positions in Asia and the Pacific remain highly concentrated to few counterparties, exposing the … financial stability. To this end, we construct cross-border bank concentration measures for 47 economies in Asia and the Pacific …, are significantly associated with lower cross-border bank concentration. Moreover, elevated cross-border bank …

Cross-border bank positions in Asia and the Pacific remain highly concentrated to few counterparties, exposing the … financial stability. To this end, we construct cross-border bank concentration measures for 47 economies in Asia and the Pacific …, are significantly associated with lower cross-border bank concentration. Moreover, elevated cross-border bank …

Cross-border bank credit is dominated by a small number of very sizeable links between banks in one country and … for credit to the non-bank sector. Despite the substantial decline in interbank credit in the aftermath of the GFC …

profitability of the examined banks during this period is due to bank-specific factors rather than to monopolistic or oligopolistic … conditions. Well-capitalised banks are found to have superior performance. However, we don't find any support that bank size …

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 …

control for banks' financial strength. Our results challenge the idea that bank credit fosters economic growth and that …

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 …