Economic integration on the EU banking markets is expected to favor competition, which should provide economic gains …. However, even if there is a commonly accepted view in favor of enhanced bank competition during the last decade, no study has … competition in all EU countries during the 2000s. We estimate the Lerner index and the H-statistic for a sample of banks from all …

The functioning of the banking sector is key for economic growth. In this paper, we first gather banks' balance sheet …

provide gains in growth by favoring competition and efficiency on financial markets. Our paper aims to check whether financial … integration has taken place on the banking markets, by investigating the convergence in banking efficiency for European Union …. Our work then constitutes the first one to apply tests of β and σ convergence specified for panel data on banking …

This paper aims to find out how intense is the competition in Polish commercial banks loan market. Using Panzar–Rosse H … to the estimator applied. Upon analysis of results, one can conclude that competition evolves differently across years in … Poland. In some years, competition was relatively high, as the H-statistics reached the level of 0.75, which is relatively …

The theoretical literature gives conflicting predictions on how bank competition should affect financial stability, and … definition of financial stability and bank competition used by researchers influences their results in a systematic way. The … competition and stability, even when corrected for publication bias and potential misspecifications. …

The theoretical literature gives conflicting predictions on how bank competition should affect financial stability, and … dozens of researchers have attempted to evaluate the relationship empirically. We collect 598 estimates of the competition … definition of financial stability and bank competition used by researchers influences their results in a systematic way. The …

the market power of the remaining banks and on competition between rivals? Do financial crises change this relationship …. After this threshold, the effect diminishes and even has a negative sign. In addition, we find that banking market power …

This paper examines the link between bank competition measures and risk indicators using quarterly interbank exposures … competition and individual bank solvency risk. In this paper, we take one step forward in analyzing the relationship between … competition and systemic risk. We use counterfactual bank-level contagion risk indicators as a proxy of systemic risk to assess …

This paper extends Boone (2008) by introducing a competition measure at the individual firm level rather than for an … and measures competition vis-à-vis other market participants. We apply this extended Boone indicator to individual bank …-level competition in the loan market in the four largest euro area countries and Austria. The MRP distribution is skewed to the left and …