Compiled database on nationality of bank ownership.

From:
Department for International Development
Published
1 January 2013
Document Type:
Dataset
Theme:
Economic Growth
Authors:
World Bank

Abstract

This data file accompanies \"Foreign Bank Behavior in Financial Crises\" by Jonathon Adams-Kane, Julian A. Caballero, and Jamus Jerome Lim, World Bank Policy Research Working Paper (PRWP) 6590.

The data are in comma-separated format.

There are 6 variables in this dataset (full details on the construction of these data are in the paper):

pwbcncode: country of majority ownership for the bank (World Bank ISO3 country codes)
swbcncode: country where bank is located (World Bank ISO3 country codes)
bankname: name of bank
owncode: ownership code, where 0 = domestically-owned banks, 1 = foreign-owned banks
year: year
mergid: unique bank identifier, drawn from Bankscope

Citation

World Bank. Compiled database on nationality of bank ownership. World Bank, Washington DC, USA (2013)

Compiled database on nationality of bank ownership.

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Published 1 January 2013
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