In recent years, foreign banks have significantly expanded their presence in many emerging countries. In our study, we use panel data to examine the economic determinants of foreign banks’ entry modes into emerging European countries during the period from 1994 to 2008. Our results suggest...

We examine the shock of the global crisis on interbank markets in emerging countries and attempt to assess the impact of macroeconomic and financial sector policy announcements on spread changes in six Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries. We find that interbank markets in emerging...

The Warsaw Stock Exchange is one of Europe's largest exchanges by the number of IPOs, although it retains features of a market in post-transition countries, including a relatively small size, shallowness and a weak institutional framework. In this study, we use a large dataset to explore firms'...

In recent years the number of going private transactions has considerably increased in emerging markets. The purpose of this study is to define the financial characteristics of companies that have gone private using a dataset comprising Polish companies. By applying a probit model we were able...

In this study, we investigate how governance quality determines the lending behavior of foreign-owned banks in emerging host markets. We do this by employing a dataset that includes foreign banks from 45 developed markets operating in 58 emerging markets. We incorporate direct measures of...