This paper examines the association between the default risk of foreign bank subsidiaries in developing countries and … parents. Host country bank regulations also influence the extent to which shocks to the parents affect the subsidiaries … restrictions on bank activities …

This paper presents recent trends in bank ownership across countries and summarizes the evidence regarding the … implications of bank ownership structure for bank performance and competition, financial stability, and access to finance. The … the impact of government bank ownership suggests few benefits, especially for developing countries …

This paper offers novel evidence on the impact of raising bank capital requirements in the context of an emerging … market: Peru. Using quarterly bank-level data and exploiting the adoption of bank-specific capital buffers, we find that … higher capital requirements have a short-lived, negative impact on bank credit in Peru, although this effect becomes …

global factors driving cross-border bank flows, alongside country-specific factors. It confirms the explanatory power of US … financial conditions, with flows decreasing in market volatility (VIX) and term premia, and increasing in bank leverage, growth … frameworks and better bank regulation, but less so for flows to non-financial firms …

We examine trends in bank competition since the early 2000s. The Lerner index—arguably the most commonly used measure …

productivity. The analysis reveals that the link between productivity and bank credit growth is weaker for firms with significant …