foreign bank lending on firm growth and financing. Foreign lending stimulates growth in firm sales, assets, and leverage, but …-1993 – arguably the most connected businesses – benefit least from foreign bank entry. This finding suggests that foreign banks can …

A growing body of literature indicates that competition increases bank soundness. Applying an industrial organization … bank soundness. We find evidence that competition robustly increases bank soundness, via the efficiency channel. … role in the transmission from competition to soundness. We use a two-pronged approach. First, we employ Granger causality …

competition intensifies, prospecting for loans becomes more important and banks' internal agency problem worsens. In response to … more competition, banks lower lending standards, may choose to disregard soft and use only hard information in their credit …

approach is able to measure competition of bank market segments, such as the loan market, whereas many well-known measures of … ignores differences in bank product quality and design, as well as the attractiveness of innovations. We measure competition …This paper is the first that applies a new measure of competition, the Boone indicator, to the banking industry. This …

Markets Programme (SMP). Using detailed security holdings data at the bank level, we show that banks exposed to this …

This study investigates if the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) distorted price competition in U.S. banking …

the effect of competition on realised bank risk (i.e. more intense competition and greater use of securitisation is … impact of competition on realised risk. It follows that cooperation between supervisory and competition authorities is …

approach is able to measure competition of bank market segments, such as the loan market, whereas many well - known measures of …This paper is the first that applies a new measure of competition, the Boone indicator, to the banking industry. This … competition can consider the entire banking market only. A caveat of the Boone - indicator may be that it assumes that banks …