Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/17710 
Year of Publication: 
2000
Series/Report no.: 
Kiel Working Paper No. 1011
Publisher: 
Kiel Institute of World Economics (IfW), Kiel
Abstract: 
Information costs and regulatory barriers are the main distinguishing features of international financial markets as compared to national financial markets. This paper presents a simple model of the impact of these factors on banks' cross-border activities and provides empirical evidence. Our dataset allows us to capture both the times-series and the cross-section dimension of information costs and changes in regulations, in particular, for intra-EU asset holdings. While EU membership per se seems to have had a negative impact on cross-border banking activities, the adoption of the Single Market clearly had a positive impact. While regulations and information costs are important for all reporting countries, their relative importance differs between countries.
Subjects: 
cross-border banking
information costs
panel cointegration
JEL: 
F21
G21
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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