Compared with China's pre-eminent status in world trade, its role in global finance is poorly
understood. This paper studies the size, terms and destination of Chinese official …

Chinese banks have become the largest cross-border creditors for almost half of all
emerging market and developing economies (EMDEs). While they look similar to other …

In this study we compare the impacts of official finance coming from the largest donors of
African countries on bilateral trade flows between the donor and the recipient. Applying a …

While China has become an important source of aid and other official funding for Africa, its
coordination with other development partners remains limited, and its contribution to …

Banks operate internationally through networks of branches and subsidiaries, also known as
foreign banking offices (FBOs). Newly collected system-and entity-level data across two …

Leveraging on a new quarterly dataset of capital control adjustments, we find renewed
evidence that the introduction or tightening of capital controls in one economy increases …

Over the past two decades, many low-income developing countries have substantially
increased openness towards external financing and have received large capital inflows …

This article examines the importance of foreign banks in the provision of credit to emerging
market borrowers. It documents this along two dimensions: the share of total credit provided …

This article applies a new investigative technique called 'equity mapping'to the corporate
structure of two big Chinese state-owned banks, Bank of China (BOC) and China …

We estimate the evolution of credit risk linkages in an international banking network of 46
advanced and emerging market economies between January 2000 and December 2019. In …