This paper addresses the relationship between bank competition and efficiency by computing Lerner indices and cost … panel estimator framework to evaluate the sign and direction of causality between them. We observe no increase in bank … efficiency. This suggests that measures to increase bank competition in the Chinese context are not detrimental to efficiency. …

This study examines how bank ownership influenced the credit supply during the recent financial crisis in Russia, where … Russian banks covering the period from the beginning of 2007 to the end of 2009. Our findings suggest that bank ownership …