This article is the first that applies a new measure of competition, the Boone indicator, to the banking industry. This approach is able to measure competition of bank market segments, such as the loan market, whereas many well-known measures of competition can consider the entire banking market...

This article applies quantile regression to assess the factors that influence the risk of incurring high trading costs. Using data on the equity trades of the world's second largest pension fund in the first quarter of 2002, we show that trade timing, momentum, volatility and the type of broker...

Contents: Part I. Measurement of financial-sector competition -- 1. Market power: competition among measures / Sherrill Shaffer and Laura Spierdijk -- 2. The Panzar-Rosse revenue test and market power in banking: an empirical illustration / Sherrill Shaffer and Laura Spierdijk -- 3. Adapting...