This paper introduces a comprehensive database on bank ownership for 137 countries over 1995-2009, and reviews foreign … bank behavior and impact. It documents substantial increases in foreign bank presence, with many more home and host … foreign bank presence negatively related with domestic credit creation. During the global crisis foreign banks reduced …

Although cross-border bank lending has fallen sharply since the crisis, extending our bank ownershipdatabase from 1995 …-2009 up to 2013 shows only limited retrenchment in foreign bank presence. Whilebanks from OECD countries reduced their foreign … presence (but still represent 89% of foreign bank assets), those from emerging markets and developing countries expanded abroad …

This paper introduces a comprehensive database on bank ownership for 137 countries over 1995-2009, and reviews foreign … bank behavior and impact. It documents substantial increases in foreign bank presence, with many more home and host … foreign bank presence negatively related with domestic credit creation. During the global crisis foreign banks reduced credit …

financial conditions in the foreign bank's home country …

financial access faced by the low-income segments of population, this paper presents an analysis of a novel dataset on bank … the costs of maintaining a bank checking account and conducting a few basic transactions can exceed 5 percent of monthly …