are more likely to enter foreign markets by means of foreign direct investment. We combine detailed proprietary bank …-level data on the international activities of all German banks with publicly available bank micro data from possible destination …

We study whether government subsidies can stimulate bank funding of marginal investment projects and the associated … can use it as an exogenous shock to identify bank responses. On average, firm subsidies do not affect bank lending, but … reduce banks’ distance to default. Average effects conflate important bank-level heterogeneity though. Conditional on various …

that failed during the 2007/2008 crisis. Excess equity returns in response to bank bailouts are overall negative and …

Recent developments on international financial markets have called the benefits of bank globalization into question … necessarily made banks less risky. Yet, surprisingly little is known about the actual link between bank internationalization, bank … countries tends to increase bank risk. Fourth, the impact of internationalization differs across banks from different banking …