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The Determinants of Cross-Border Bank Share holdings: an Analysis with Bank-Level Data from OECD Countries

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Focarelli, D.
Pozzolo, A.F.

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This paper investigates which factors determine a bank's decision to expand its activities abroad and what determines its choice of the countries to invest in. The empirical analysis is conducted using firm-level data on foreign subsidiaries for a representative sample fo nearly 2,500 OECD banks.

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Paper provided by Banca Italia - Servizio di Studi in its series Papers with number 381.

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Date of creation: 2000
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Keywords: BANKS ; INVESTMENTS ; MARKET;

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