stability of the system as a whole. Exploiting a rich bank-level balance sheet database for eight Latin American countries, we …

This paper examines whether bank ownership (public versus private, domestic versus foreign) is correlated with bank … bank managers; evidence is found in support of the former hypothesis. In the case of foreign-owned banks, the paper finds …

This paper builds a new dataset on bank ownership and bank performance covering approximately 50,000 observations for … 119 countries over the 1995-2002 period. The paper then uses the dataset to reassess the relationship between bank … ownership and bank performance, providing separated estimations for developing and industrial countries. It is found that, while …

This paper tests the efficiency of different structures of bank ownership in terms of its ability to target …