Financial networks provide channels for contagion risks and their topological properties determine financial stability. We extend financial network reconstruction methods to the bipartite network and then compare their reproducibility for the real credit network in terms of different topological...

We investigate whether foreign bank penetration affects the risk-taking of domestic banks in emerging economies. By using bank-level data from 35 markets during the period of 2000-2014, we find significant evidence that the riskiness of domestic banks increases with the presence of foreign...

This study investigates the effect of banking competition on the transformation of Chinese firms' export trade mode. Using about 300 thousand observations, we find that bank competition affects a company's transition from processing mode to ordinary trade. The validity of our findings is...