It is widely perceived that competition in the Indian banking sector has increased since the inception of the financial … competitive conditions and earns revenues as if under monopolistic competition. …

This paper investigates the empirical relationship between competition in the financial sector and the creation of … firms in the non-financial sector. It finds that bank competition has an overall positive effect on firm creation. However …, consistent with theories of banking arguing that competition may reduce the availability of credit to informationally opaque …

Traditional bank competition policy seeks to balance efficiency with incentives to take risk. The main tools are rules … seek to affect the degree of competition by focusing on market structure (i.e. concentration) may have limited effect. We … argue that bank competition policy should be reoriented to deal with the too-big-to-fail (TBTF) problem. It should also …

Community (EAC) countries2. The results show that the degree of competition is low due to a combination of structural and socio …

The paper assesses the degree of banking competition and efficiency in Italy?over time as well as compared to that in … other countries, such as France, Germany, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The paper finds competition in …. The degree of competition falls within the range of estimates for a set of comparator countries. Greater contestability …

This study reinvestigates the theoretical relationship between competition in banking and banks' exposure to risk of … failure. There is a large existing literature that concludes that when banks are confronted with increased competition, they … regulators and central bankers, causing them to take a less favorable view of competition and encouraging anti …