derived from imperfect competition in markets for financial services is implied, which banks exercise vis-à-vis their loan and … deposit customers. In the past, bank regulation has often been blamed for undermining competition and the functioning of … industry, competition and regulation are deeply interrelated as most regulatory institutions, even if they do not explicitly …

for competition in the consolidated banking sector. The financial crisis of 2008 brought with it the need to proceed with …

This empirical paper adds to competition and industrial organization literature by exploring the interplay between … markets to be ruled by monopolistic competition, although estimation by revenue-equation does not reject monopoly hypothesis … competitiveness of the given regional market, and the results from non-structural methods of estimation suggest that bank competition …

We examine the impact of bank competition on the industrial structure using a city-industry level dataset during 2005 …-2009 in China. We find that bank competition increases the number of firms per capita and decreases average firm size in … industries with higher external financial dependence. Bank competition affects industrial structure through increasing the …

competition, of which the most common are the concentration ratio and the Herfindahl-Hirschman index. It is important to emphasize … competition. Although market changes are reflected in a reduced number of banks while a change in the dispersion of market shares …

last global financial crisis and during the crisis, with particular emphasis on the change in concentration and competition …, in an attempt to determine the relationship between competition, concentration, and risk-taking by banks. This paper also … financial stability. The results for competition are unambiguous, as competition had a positive impact on financial stability …