We analyze the microeconomic determinants of cross-border bank acquisitions in 16 transition economies over the period …

This paper describes the trends in foreign bank ownership across the world and presents, for the first time, empirical … bank subsidiaries across 54 countries from 1997 to 2009, we show that the problems encountered by subsidiaries were not the …. Therefore, we assume that a multinational bank's decision to close or sell a subsidiary in another country is based mainly on …

subsequently employs extreme bounds analysis to establish the determinants of foreign bank efficiency that are robust to model … the retail market, with acquisition of a domestic bank reducing this effect. Internet-based bank product delivery reduces …

survival of top executives (Presidents, CEOs and General Managers) to bank performance and the manager's local connections …, controlling for (observable and unobservable) bank and manager characteristics by exploiting longitudinal information on bank …-manager appointments. We measure the extent? of managers' local connections by the distance between the province of the bank's headquarters …

financial crisis of the 20th century – the Great Depression. Using balance-sheet and systemic risk measures at the bank level …, we build an econometric model with incidental truncation that jointly considers bank survival, the type of bank closure … (consolidations, absorption, and failures), and changes to bank risk. Despite roughly 9,000 bank closures, risk did not leave the …

, which may have intensified the diabolic loop between sovereign and bank credit risks. By using a novel bank-level dataset …

the public, long-term systemic risk among banks tends to increase. From the dynamic perspective, bank penalties represent … long-term. In this respect, bank penalties resemble still waters that run deep. In contrast, a settlement with regulatory …