Between 1995 and 2005, foreign bank participation in Mexico rose from 2 percent of bank assets to 83 percent, as the … top five largest banks were acquired by foreigners. This paper examines the link between foreign bank acquisitions and … banking outreach. Using quarterly country, bank, and bank-municipality-level data, the authors find some contrasting patterns …

Recently, developing countries have witnessed a sharp increase in foreign bank participation. The authors examine the … impact on banking outreach using newly gathered data for Mexico, where foreign bank participation rose from 2 percent to 83 … percent of assets during 1997-2005. Country-, bank-, and bank-municipality level estimations show a decline in the number of …

Recently, developing countries have witnessed a sharp increase in foreign bank participation. We examine the impact on … banking outreach using newly gathered data for Mexico, where foreign bank participation rose from 2% to 83% of assets during … 1997-2005. Country-, bank-, and bank-municipality-level estimations show a decline in the number of deposit and loan …

services is related to household characteristics, bank ownership structure and the development of the financial infrastructure …. At the household level we find that the holding of a bank account or bank card increases with income, wealth and … integration. Our results show that foreign bank ownership is associated with more bank accounts among high-wealth, high …

reviews the debate about marketbased vs. bank-based financial systems. Using data for a sample of 40 countries over the period … economic growth, but the degree to which a financial system is market- or bank-based cannot explain economic development across …

Using a unique bank-level dataset on the Ugandan banking system over theperiod 1999 to 2005, we explore the factors … banking efficiency. Similarly, macroeconomic variables canexplain little of the over-time variation in bank spreads. Bank …-level characteristics, onthe other hand, such as bank size, operating costs, and composition of loan portfolio,explain a large proportion of …