The paper assesses the degree of banking competition and efficiency in Italy?over time as well as compared to that in … other countries, such as France, Germany, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The paper finds competition in … the Italian banking sector has intensified in loan and deposit markets in recent years, but banks still operate in a …

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

far-reaching banking sector reforms undertaken in Uganda to improve competition and efficiency. Using models that have …There is a concern that the state-dominated, inefficient, and fragile banking systems in many low-income countries … been previously used only in industrial countries, we find that the level of competition has increased significantly and …

, consistent with theories of banking arguing that competition may reduce the availability of credit to informationally opaque …This paper investigates the empirical relationship between competition in the financial sector and the creation of … firms in the non-financial sector. It finds that bank competition has an overall positive effect on firm creation. However …

This paper examines the evolution of market structure in emerging market banking systems during the 1990s. While …

We study versions of a general equilibrium banking model with moral hazard under either constant or increasing returns … technology exhibits increasing returns to scale, or it is relatively efficient, then perfect competition is optimal and supports …, or is relatively inefficient, then imperfect competition and intermediate levels of bank risks are optimal. These results …

theirs. Da Empoli’s work is on the process of competition. In this he has affinity to work of Knight and Clark written in the …