This study empirically analyses the links between banking competition and manufacturing productivity growth for a sample of 10 European countries during the period 1999-2009. To test this relationship, which from a theoretical point of view is unclear, we use a difference-in-difference...

This paper examines the implications of banking competition for the interest rate channel in the Eurozone over the period 2003-2010. We use an Error Correction Model (ECM) approach to measure the long-run and short-run relationships between money market rates, bank interest rates, and our...