Hale, Galina; Candelaria, Christopher; Caballero, Julian; … - Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco - 2013
We show that bank linkages have a positive effect on international trade. We construct the global banking network (GBN …) at the bank level, using individual syndicated loan data from Loan Analytics for 1990-2007. We compute network distance … between bank pairs and aggregate it to country pairs as a measure of bank linkages between countries. We use data on bilateral …