,300 mergers that took place between 1978 and 2001 to analyse the determinants of international bank mergers. We test the extent to … regulated environments are less likely to be the targets of international bank mergers. Hence, the lifting of regulations can … spur growth in cross-border bank mergers. Also, mergers tend to be less frequent if information costs are high. …

Multinational bank activity is known to generate spillover effects between countries. The size of these spillover … effects inter alia depends on the choice of multinational banks' representative form and on regulation. The present paper … provide incentives for banks to choose representative forms in their interest by adapting the strictness of regulation. It is …

countries, this paper investigates how both host country and home country regulation affect the decision on where and how to go … supervision. In all cases, they avoid locations with stronger capital regulation than at home. Regarding the choice of foreign … supervisory power. Our findings contribute to the literature examining bank internationalization and have several policy …

Bank holding companies (BHCs) can be complex organizations, conducting multiple lines of business through many distinct … legal entities and across a range of geographies. While such complexity raises the costs of bank resolution when …, liquidity management, and synergy improvements that reduce risk. The outcomes of such trade-offs may depend on bank governance …

from the most recent (2011-2012) World Bank survey on banking supervision and regulation. Key observations emerging from …After two decades of extreme turbulence in banking and financial markets around the world, it is reasonable to ask … about the current status of banking regulation and supervision. Our unique starting point for answering that question comes …

engage in bank-like activities) pose unacceptable risks to thestability of financial markets and economies around the globe ….Second, the world remains trapped in a “global doom loop,” despite the financial reformsadopted by many countries after 2009. The …

The regulatory sandbox is a real world alternative to regulatory lag. Its emergence as a novel regulatory development …-based regulation, distinguished by a regulatory approach that is concerned with actively supporting innovators in nurturing cutting …

This paper investigates the impact of governance and regulation on systemic risk across a sample of banks from 10 …