The Covid-19 pandemic's economic effect led to tighter credit standards and a decline in the
market for many types of loans. With a rich database of 1,231 banks in 90 countries from …

We use the Covid-19 pandemic to assess whether diversification in various dimensions can
protect European banks from substantial negative valuation shocks. Our results demonstrate …

We classify a large sample of banks according to the geographic diversification of their
international syndicated loan portfolio. We show that diversified banks maintain higher loan …

Complexity of banks can have important ramifications for the performance and the risks of
the banking system. Financial sector reforms that were implemented in the past decade …

This paper provides a unique snapshot of the asset exposures of EU banks to shadow
banking entities within the global financial system. Drawing on a rich and novel dataset, we …

Banks operate internationally through networks of branches and subsidiaries, also known as
foreign banking offices (FBOs). Newly collected system-and entity-level data across two …

The BIS consolidated banking statistics (CBS) are one of the few data sets to provide banks'
consolidated exposures to individual countries. The consolidated perspective shifts the …

abstract Using data for 123 countries from 1996 to 2020, we uncover the effect of foreign-
owned banks' geographic complexity on financial fragility in the context of financial …

The Covid-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine have furthered a sustained retreat from
global banking. The funding sources of local banking systems have shifted from cross …

This paper studies the role of global banks in cross-border gross and net capital flows. I
propose a tractable multi-country model in which leverage-constrained global banks …