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Competition and Efficiency in Banking; Behavioral Evidence From Ghana

Mathisen, Johan; Buchs, Thierry D. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2005

This paper assesses the degree of bank competition and discusses efficiency with regard to banks' financial …

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Cihák, Martin; Schaeck, Klaus - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2007

We use data for more than 2,600 European banks to test whether increased competition causes banks to hold higher … when controlling for the degree of concentration in banking systems, inter-industry competition, characteristics of the …

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Small business lending and bank competition

Laderman, Liz - In: FRBSF Economic Letter (2008)

This Economic Letter examines what the data say about the relationship between the degree of competition in and total …

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Macroeconomic Implications of Financial Dollarization; The Case of Uruguay

Gelos, Gaston; Mejía, Alejandro López; Piñón-Farah, … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2008

Uruguay has experienced a remarkable recovery since the 2002 crisis, supported by sound policies and favorable external conditions. With the framework put in place in 2002, Uruguay abandoned an exchange rate peg in favor of a free float, adoped a monetary regime initially based on money targets,...

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