The trade-off between bank competition and financial stability has always been a widely and controversial issue, both … among policymakers and academics. This paper empirically re-investigates the relationship between competition and bank risk … consider both individual and systemic dimension of risk. Bank-individual risk is measured by the Z-score and the distance …

banking competition is fiercer. We explain this result with the fact that bank market power, i.e., low competition, would …

estimating both an interacted panel VAR (IPVAR) model using macroeconomic data and a single-equation model with bank … potential GDP leads to greater credit fluctuation in economies where:(i) competition among banks and,(ii) competition from non-bank …

money market rates, bank interest rates, and our competition proxy, namely, the Lerner index. We find that competition (i …) reduces the bank lending interest rates, (ii) increases the long-term interest pass-through and (iii) speeds up the adjustment …, banking stability, and capitalization) matter for monetary policy transmission, bank competition remains a key determinant of …