We study the effects of a bank's engagement in trading. Traditional banking is relationship-based: not scalable, long …-based: scalable, shortterm, capital constrained, and with the ability to generate risk from concentrated positions. When a bank … inefficiencies. A bank may allocate too much capital to trading ex-post, compromising the incentives to build relationships ex …

in the GCC. We use bank-level panel data, exploiting variation across banks within countries, to isolate the impact of ….S. monetary policy to liability rates than to asset rates and bank profitability, largely reflecting funding structures. In … addition, we explore the role of shifts in the quantity of bank liabilities as policy rates change and the role of large banks …

). We use detailed individual-level survey data, combined with key country-level indicators of bank competition and … financial soundness, to study the effect on the adoption of several financial products (bank accounts, credit and debit cards …, and bank loans). We find that more competition tends to increase the probability of access to these financial products. On …

identifies some key patterns of cross-border investment in bank subsidiaries by key banking groups in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA …

We examine how bank competition in the run-up to the 2007-2009 crisis affects banks' systemic risk during the crisis …. We then investigate whether this effect is influenced by two key bank characteristics: securitization and bank capital …. Using a sample of the largest listed banks from 15 countries, we find that greater market power at the bank level and higher …

We explore the global footprint of Chinese banks and compare it with that of other bank nationalities. Chinese banks … across all bank nationalities, we find that larger distances deter cross-border bank lending to EMDEs more than to AEs. For …

the determinants of bank interest margins using a sample of 456 banks in 41 SSA countries. The results show that market … concentration is positively associated with interest margins, but the impact depends on the level of efficiency of each bank. In … results also show that bank-specific factors such as credit risk, liquidity risk, and bank equity are important determinants …

policymakers’ efforts to strengthen bank capitalization …

stable over the financial cycle, including post-crisis, and there isno clear evidence that aspects of bank business model …