, bilateral economic interactions like trade, FDI and portfolio investment, positively correlate with lending. Chinese banks …' lending to EMDEs also strongly correlates with trade, but not with FDI and, unlike other banks, it correlates negatively with …We explore the global footprint of Chinese banks and compare it with that of other bank nationalities. Chinese banks …

the abolition of capital controls seem to have exerted a greater influence on foreign assets than on FDI of German banks …

We study how differences in bank regulation influence cross-border bank acquisition flows and the share price reactions … positive and larger when acquirers come from more restrictive bank regulatory environments. We interpret this evidence as more …

variation from an international trade theory perspective. In the model, banking across borders arises from differences in factor …-sectional predictions. -- Cross-border banking ; international capital flows ; trade in banking services …

activities for a sample of banks in 38 countries over the 1998-2008 period. International double taxation of foreign-source bank … income is found to reduce banking-sector FDI. Furthermore, such taxation is almost fully passed on into higher interest …, and that the incidence of international double taxation of banks is on bank customers in the foreign subsidiary country …