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What Determines the Foreign Ownership Share of a Country's Banking Assets?

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  • Ping Liang

    (Department of Finance, College of Business, Auburn University, Auburn, AL 36849-5240, USA)

  • Daniel M. Gropper

    (Department of Finance, College of Business, 415 West Magnolia, Suite 503, Auburn University, Auburn, AL 36849-5240, USA)

  • Steven B. Caudill

    (Department of Business and Economics, Rhodes College, 200 North Parkway, Memphis, TN 38112-1690, USA)

Abstract

The main purpose of this paper is to examine the roles of economic and political factors in explaining the foreign ownership share of a country's banking assets. In particular, our study includes new market-openness and regulation variables. The General Agreement on Trade in Services is an important element that affects financial sector regulation of every current and potential World Trade Organization member country, and opening financial markets is an important goal of this agreement. We find that the market openness index developed by Barthet al.(2010) bears a statistically significant relation to foreign ownership, as expected, and that regulation, rule of law, and profit opportunities are also important determinants of foreign ownership of bank assets.

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  • Ping Liang & Daniel M. Gropper & Steven B. Caudill, 2011. "What Determines the Foreign Ownership Share of a Country's Banking Assets?," Review of Pacific Basin Financial Markets and Policies (RPBFMP), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 14(03), pages 535-561.
    • Handle: RePEc:wsi:rpbfmp:v:14:y:2011:i:03:n:s0219091511002226
    DOI: 10.1142/S0219091511002226
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    Keywords

    Financial regulation; governance; international banking; market openness index; WTO;
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    JEL classification:

    • G1 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets
    • G2 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services
    • G3 - Financial Economics - - Corporate Finance and Governance

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