This paper addresses the relationship between bank competition and efficiency by computing Lerner indices and cost … competition over the period, even as cost efficiency improves. In a departure from the empirical literature showing that … competition negatively Granger-causes cost efficiency for Western banks, we find no significant relation between competition and …

There has been a notable debate in the banking literature on the impact of bank competition on financial stability …. While the dominant view sees a detrimental impact of competition on the stability of banks, this view has recently been … providing the first empirical investigation of the role of bank competition on the occurrence of bank failures. We analyze this …