greater competition from the foreign-owned banks that appear to
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have expanded...acquisitions – as noted previously, this was the primary way foreign banks...
except it drops substantially in 1994 when the Compustat
database for banks expanded...although
accounting leverage declined during the 1990s, hidden leverage greatly...
is the relative level of over-
due claims, whose share in total bank assets expanded...62.6% in the first six months of 2006, while the share of equity securities...
