This article investigates the relationship between market structure and performance in the British retail banking market for the period 1993 to 2004. Using panel data estimation methods, both the Market Power (MP) and Efficient-Structure (ES) hypotheses are tested. This study is the first to...

China's banking system has undergone gradual reform since 1978, with a view to improving efficiency and resource allocation. Recent reforms have focused on allowing banks to list some shares on domestic and foreign exchanges, greater foreign equity participation in Chinese banks and the...

This article investigates the relationship between market structure and performance in the British retail banking market for the period 1993 to 2004. Using panel data estimation methods, both the Market Power (MP) and Efficient-Structure (ES) hypotheses are tested. This study is the first to...

We study the effect of power sharing over income redistribution among different socio-economic groups in a model of redistributive politics with fairness concern. We prove that a unique pure-strategy equilibrium exists under fairly general conditions; and we show that equilibrium transfers...