Research and analysis using the BIS international banking statistics
Publications featured on this page have been selected for their particular relevance to the BIS international banking statistics. They include working papers, articles from BIS Quarterly Reviews and the latest statistical commentary.
Selected publications
Dec 2020 | International banking amidst Covid-19: resilience and drivers Highlights the resilience and examines the drivers of international bank lending during the Covid-19 pandemic |
Sep 2020 | Cross-border links between banks and non-bank financial institutions Documents the growing interconnectedness between banks and non-bank financial institutions and the concentration of links around financial centres and large advanced economies |
Jun 2020 | International dimensions of EME corporate debt Presents corporates' external and foreign currency debt for key emerging market economies |
Sep 2019 | Non-bank counterparties in international banking Presents and analyses new sectoral breakdowns for non-bank counterparties available in the international banking statistics |
Jul 2019 | Measuring contagion risk in international banking Proposes a novel methodology for measuring contagion risk in international banking |
Jun 2019 | Concentration in cross-border banking Documents the structural concentration of cross-border banking: a small number of country-level links dominate global cross-border bank credit |
May 2019 | How does the interaction of macroprudential and monetary policies affect cross-border bank lending? |
Mar 2019 | Emerging markets' reliance on foreign bank credit |
Mar 2019 | Following the imprint of the ECB's asset purchase programme on global bond and deposit flows |
Dec 2018 | The growing footprint of EME banks in the international banking system |
Dec 2018 | The geography of dollar funding of non-US banks |
Dec 2018 | Gross capital flows by banks, corporates and sovereigns |
Jul 2018 | Transmission of monetary policy through global banks: whose policy matters? |
Sep 2017 | Recent enhancements to the BIS statistics Introduces a newly published currency breakdown of cross-border loans and deposits in the LBS |
Aug 2017 | The Distance Effect in Banking and Trade Estimates gravity equations in trade and banking using theory-consistent methods, to show that informational frictions and other evidence of globalization show up not just in the distance coefficient but also in the extensive margin and in a global component |
Jun 2017 | The shifting drivers of global liquidity Examines the importance of US monetary policy and global risk aversion as drivers of global liquidity |
May 2017 | Supply- and demand-side factors in global banking Distinguishes between supply and demand forces in determining movements in international banking flows |
Dec 2016 | The currency dimension of the bank lending channel in international monetary transmission Investigates how the use of a currency transmits monetary policy shocks in the global banking system |
Nov 2016 | The dollar, bank leverage and the deviation from covered interest parity Analyses the triangular relationship formed by the strength of the US dollar, cross-border bank lending in US dollars and deviations from covered interest parity |
Sep 2016 | Recent enhancements to the BIS statistics Introduces newly published data on the claims and liabilities of banks in each LBS-reporting country on counterparties in more than 200 countries |
Sep 2015 | Enhanced data to analyse international banking Explains new data collected in the LBS and CBS since the Great Financial Crisis and how they enrich analysis of banks' lending and funding |
Oct 2009 | The US dollar shortage in global banking and the international policy response Examines the build-up of stresses on banks' international balance sheets that set the stage for the shortage of US dollars during the Great Financial Crisis |
Sep 2005 | The BIS consolidated banking statistics: structure, uses and improvements Explains how the CBS were expanded to better capture banks' country risk exposures |