political decisions. In the event, significant international pressure and a series of bank crises in the 1990s resulted in the … privileging of foreign capital in CEE bank privatization for most of the region. The central question this study will answer is …

This study proposes a Foreign Banks' Branch Networks Index (FBBNI) to capture bank-level exposure to competition from … and domestic banks in China and therefore serves as a better proxy to study the impact of foreign bank penetration on the … foreign banks. These positive relationships are more pronounced among joint-stock banks (JCBs). Finally, foreign bank …

resurgent shift in bank competition. We disentangle the impact of regional asymmetries among EZ member countries by estimating … the Mahalanobis distance metric. We find that lower bank competition has a significant positive impact on Intra-EZ FDI in … proxy reflecting the cost of interbank funds denominated in the same (common) currency, and bank competition, proxied by the …