This study analyzed the 1987 data of 176 relatively large U.S. banks that have both foreign and domestic offices. Canonical analysis and the interpretive framework of asset/liability management were used to identify and interpret their foreign and domestic balance sheet strategies in the context of the "crisis in lending to LDCs." The analysis found a consistent dichotomy in foreign and domestic asset/liability matching strategies, the former being more generally conservative with respect to interest-rate and liquidity risks. Among the 44 very large banks, those that were found to follow a predominant or consistent foreign strategy are more profitable than those that follow a mixed or, especially, domestic strategy. Further, these banks that follow a consistent foreign (domestic) matching strategy have the smallest (largest) mean proportions of all foreign asset and liability variables.
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