, 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 …