Foreign Bank Subsidiaries' Default Risk During the Global Crisis : What Factors Help Insulate Affiliates from Their Parents?
This paper examines the association between the default risk of foreign bank subsidiaries and their parents during the global financial crisis, with the purpose of understanding what factors can help insulate affiliates from their parents. The pape...
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Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank Group, Washington, DC
2014
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Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2014/10/20261594/foreign-bank-subsidiaries-default-risk-during-global-crisis-factors-help-insulate-affiliates-parents http://hdl.handle.net/10986/20517 |
Summary: | This paper examines the association
between the default risk of foreign bank subsidiaries and
their parents during the global financial crisis, with the
purpose of understanding what factors can help insulate
affiliates from their parents. The paper finds evidence of a
significant positive correlation between parent banks'
and foreign subsidiaries' default risk. This
correlation is lower for subsidiaries that have higher
capital, retail deposit funding, and profitability ratios
and that are more independently managed from their parents.
Host country regulations also influence the extent to which
shocks to the parents affect the subsidiaries' default
risk. In particular, the correlation between the default
risk of the subsidiary and the parent is lower for
subsidiaries operating in countries that impose higher
capital, reserve, provisioning, and disclosure requirements
and tougher restrictions on bank activities. |
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