far-reaching banking sector reforms undertaken in Uganda to improve competition and efficiency. Using models that have … been previously used only in industrial countries, we find that the level of competition has increased significantly and …

smaller bank size. Overall, we find that concentrated market structures and lack of competition in LICs banking systems and … provide strong evidence that policies aimed at fostering banking competition and strengthening institutional frameworks can …

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 …

This paper investigates the degree of bank competition in the euro area, the U.S. and U.K. before and after the recent … financial crisis, and revisits the issue whether the introduction of EMU and the euro have had any impact on bank competition …. The results suggest that the level of bank competition converged across euro area countries in the wake of the EMU. The …

technology exhibits increasing returns to scale, or it is relatively efficient, then perfect competition is optimal and supports …, or is relatively inefficient, then imperfect competition and intermediate levels of bank risks are optimal. These results …

'Afrique Centrale (CEMAC) and the level of bank competition at the regional level. Using a mix of quantitative and qualitative … excess liquidity in the region. Other data also indicate that bank competition within the CEMAC as a region is limited …

We use data for more than 2,600 European banks to test whether increased competition causes banks to hold higher … when controlling for the degree of concentration in banking systems, inter-industry competition, characteristics of the …