The research shows that banking relationships are important to lending. However, few studies focus on the banking relationships in syndicated loans, although these loans have became a major source of financing. The last financial crisis clearly shows the impacts of credit rationing and...

This paper aims at assessing the extent to which M&As in European banking sector over the period 1996–2003 result in two simultaneous catching up and convergence processes of consolidating groups. First, do the M&As significantly contribute to the consolidating banks to catch-up with the...

[eng] The purpose of this study is to analyze the prospects for the transformation of the French banking sector by evaluating the relation between excess capacity and production cost observed in the beginning of the nine teen's. The excess capacity of French banks made the services they provide...

[eng] In the sixties, the SCP (Structure-Conduct-Performance) paradigm used to be reffered to, by economists analyzing the banking market structure. Such a point of view was challenged by the New Industrial Economic School. It was emphasized that market structure should be determined...