This paper analyzes the monthly evolution of bank competition in Mexico from 2008 to 2019 using different measures …. Subsequently, we analyze whether the 2014 financial reform had an effect on some of our competition measures. We use ordinary and … supporting the idea that the reform had a positive average effect and increased banks competition intensity during a few years …

frequency of interventions coincides with greater zombie bank presence, and increases in competition are larger when zombie … nationalizations affect banking competition. This issue is critical for stability, access to finance, and economic growth. Exploiting … that liquidity support, recapitalizations, and nationalizations trigger large increases in competition. We also find some …

Japan, rely heavily on bank lending. I argue that the structure of a country's financial system depends on the political …

to explain the deposit rate dynamics following bank mergers. We find a strong and sharp post-merger convergence between … the merger. This result indicates that competition authorities would be well advised to review the potential impact of …

regulation and Europeanisation of supervision, however, -so far neglecting differences in risk profiles and bank sizes …-Anwendungen vorhandene Bank- und Finanzdienstleistungen ergänzen, aber nicht ersetzen werden. Wir warnen jedoch vor bestehenden …

financial regulators and competition authorities. Should competition authorities play a role in financial regulation? Should … discusses the relation between competition authorities and sector-specific regulators more generally. Whereas competition policy … more prone to capture than competition authorities. In the financial sector, the potential for capture is particularly …

drawing useful lessons for regulatory reform. We argue that an important contributor to positive bank performance was a solid …

this natural experiment to evaluate the consequences of bail out expectations for bank behavior using a difference in …