The three main measures of competition (HHI, Lerner Index, and H-Statistic) are uncorrelated for U.S. banks. We … investigate why this occurs, propose a frontier measure of competition, and apply it to five major bank service lines using data … only available since 2008. Fee-based banking services comprise 35% of bank revenues so assessing competition by service …

In this work, we evaluate the competition in the Romanian banking system as regards the distortions in terms of market …) where we analyse the competition on the Romanian banking market, using two indicators: the M index and the degree of the … Romanian banking system during the period 2000 - 2010 and that, in the period under review, the competition has continuously …

Many studies have attempted to investigate the determinants and implications of competition in the banking industry …. The literature on the measurement of competition can be divided between the structural and non-structural approaches. The … structural approach infers the degree of competition from the structure of the market. The non-structural approach, based on the …

Many studies have attempted to investigate the determinants and implications of competition in the banking industry …. The literature on the measurement of competition can be divided between the structural and non-structural approaches. The … structural approach infers the degree of competition from the structure of the market. The non-structural approach, based on the …

In this paper, we investigate whether bank competition increases risk taking for the case of the Tunisian banks. Our … on panel data estimations. The econometric results reveal the presence of a positive relationship between competition and …

This study empirically analyses the links between banking competition and manufacturing productivity growth for a … banking competition is fiercer. We explain this result with the fact that bank market power, i.e., low competition, would …

bank competition measures to study the role of banking system structure as a determinant of cross-country variability in … are robust to changes in sample, data, and estimation strategy and suggest that the degree of competition is an important …

This paper empirically investigates the effect of interbank competition and misallocation of credit on the creation and …