Authors: Ester Faia, Sebastien Laffitte, and Gianmarco Ottaviano Date: September 2018 Abstract: Using a novel dataset on the 15 European banks classified as G-SIBs from 2005 to 2014, we find that the impact of foreign expansion on risk is always negative and significant for most individual and systemic risk metrics. In the case of individual[…]

Authors: Ilhyock Shim, and Kwanho Shin Date: September 2018 Abstract: We investigate if financial stress in countries where international banks are headquartered is a major driver of banking outflows from emerging market economies (EMEs). We find that when financial stress measured by sovereign or bank CDS spread or corporate bond spread increases, international banks decrease[…]