liquidity insurance schemes, public capital injections, and nationalisations. We use bank-level data spanning all British and … foreign banks operating within the United Kingdom. We use multinomial logit regression techniques and find that a bank’s size …During the 2007-09 financial crisis, the banking sector received an extraordinary level of public support. In this …

While the financial crisis took a large toll on the UK banking industry overall, some institutions were forced to … whether and how the characteristics of these institutions leading up to and during the crisis differed from those of … before the crisis, institutions that ultimately resorted to more intensive efforts (ie debt-equity swaps, mergers with …

legal forms of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in Russia are described. Of-ficial data on the evolution of the size of the … distribution of SOEs and the degree of their internationalization is described. Finally, data on the SOEs that are listed on the … companies than what can be inferred from the official data. In a second part (to be published in the next issue of this journal …

-capitalisation programme. Of course, since Northern Rock failed the world has experienced what is arguably its most serious financial crisis … crisis pales into insignificance within the global context. Nevertheless, the Northern Rock is particularly significant …

A long-recognized phenomenon in capital markets is the underinvestment in foreign equity securities, known as equity … home bias. Our study examines the effect of board independence on the firms' ability to attract foreign equity capital …. After accounting for potential endogeneity, we document that U.S. and non-U.S. foreign investors exhibit a strong preference …