activities for a sample of banks in 38 countries over the 1998-2008 period. International double taxation of foreign-source bank …, and that the incidence of international double taxation of banks is on bank customers in the foreign subsidiary country …

Motivated by public policy debates about bank consolidation and conflicting theoretical predictions about the … relationship between the market structure of the banking industry and bank fragility, this paper studies the impact of bank … concentration, bank regulations, and national institutions on the likelihood of suffering a systemic banking crisis. Using data on …

bank-centered and market-centered financial systems. …

reinforce evidence in the literature on bank mergers that large-bank consolidation is adversely affecting access to credit for …

consider the tradeoff between the benefits of direct bank monitoring to the firm and the costs of active bank involvement in …. Consistent with high potential costs of active bank involvement, we find that bankers tend to be represented on the boards of … implications for the current bank regulatory reform debate, such as whether to permit banks to own equity in non-financial firms …

paper seeks to measure and compare how well authorities in 56 countries controlled bank risk shifting during the 1990s …

We test three hypotheses regarding changes in supervisory toughness' and their effects on bank lending. The data …, affected bank lending. However, all of the measured effects are small, with 1% or less of loans receiving harsher or easier … classification, about 3% of banks receiving better or worse CAMEL ratings, and bank lending being changed by 1% or less of assets. …