“…This is the case in Eastern Europe and Central Asia where a considerable number of regional studies derive results consistent with that proposition (Bonin, Hasan and Wachtel, 2005;Fries and Taci, 2005;Grigorian and Manole, 2006;Havrylchyk and Jurzyk, 2011), 9 as do country-level studies of Poland and the Czech Republic (Weill, 2003;Matousek and Taci, 2004;Havrylchyk, 2006), Hungary (Hasan and Marton, 2003;Majnoni, Shankar and Varhegyi, 2003), Croatia (Jemric and Vujcic, 2002;Kraft et al, 2006) and Turkey (Isik and Hassan, 2002). Similarly, in Asia, country case studies for Malaysia (Detragiache and Gupta, 2006;Matthews andIsmail, 2006), Thailand (Chantapong, 2005), Indonesia (Mulyaningsih, 2015) and Pakistan (Bonaccorsi di Patti and Hardy, 2005) find that foreign-owned banks are better performers. The findings are more ambiguous in China (Wu et al, 2007;Berger et al, 2009) and India (Bhattacharya et al 1997;Sensarma, 2006), where foreign bank participation remains limited.…”