Investigation of Cross-border Banking Activities

This paper investigates cross-border lending behavior from the Group of Seven (G7) during the 2001-2013 period. We employ gravity model to consider how bilateral factors, global factors, and other determinants of pull factors affect cross -border lending . The empirical results demonstrate that driving factors for cross-border lending have been changing since the 2008 Global Financial Crisis . Particularly , continent variable has more significant correlation with cross-border claims during the post-crisis period, while distance variable becomes less important during that time than it was in the pre-crisis period. Additionally , higher lending claims is more likely related to common language after the financial crisis. Moreover, the role of pull factors, except the size of borrowing economies, is not significant in explaining cross-border banking activities since GFC.