Foreign Bank Participation and Outreach : Evidence from Mexico

Recently, developing countries have witnessed a sharp increase in foreign bank participation. We examine the impact on banking outreach using newly gathered data for Mexico, where foreign bank participation rose from 2% to 83% of assets during 1997-2005. Country-, bank-, and bank-municipality-level...

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Main Authors:	Beck, Thorsten, Martinez Peria, Maria Soledad
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	EN
Published:	2012
Subjects:	Multinational Firms International Business F230 Banks Other Depository Institutions Micro Finance Institutions Mortgages G210 Economic Development: Financial Markets Saving and Capital Investment Corporate Finance and Governance O160 Economic Development: Regional, Urban, and Rural Analyses Transportation O180
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/5386

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description	Recently, developing countries have witnessed a sharp increase in foreign bank participation. We examine the impact on banking outreach using newly gathered data for Mexico, where foreign bank participation rose from 2% to 83% of assets during 1997-2005. Country-, bank-, and bank-municipality-level estimations show a decline in the number of deposit and loan accounts. While country- and bank-level estimations indicate an increase in the share of municipalities with bank branches and in the likelihood of bank presence, bank-municipality regressions show that only rich and urban municipalities benefited. Overall, the evidence is consistent with a decline in outreach.
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author	Beck, Thorsten Martinez Peria, Maria Soledad
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title	Foreign Bank Participation and Outreach : Evidence from Mexico
title_short	Foreign Bank Participation and Outreach : Evidence from Mexico
title_full	Foreign Bank Participation and Outreach : Evidence from Mexico
title_fullStr	Foreign Bank Participation and Outreach : Evidence from Mexico
title_full_unstemmed	Foreign Bank Participation and Outreach : Evidence from Mexico
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Foreign Bank Participation and Outreach : Evidence from Mexico

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