This article provides novel evidence on project finance loan pricing using economic and disaggregated political risk … results in cheaper project finance loans. The evidence in support of disaggregated political risk as a pricing determinant is … with a risk allocation approach to project finance deals. …

groups of commercial, savings and co-operative banks; and between listed and non-listed banking institutions. In addition, it … more cost efficient than those of mutual banking institutions because of capital market devices as it is found that mutual … the best of the authors’ knowledge, there are no previous similar empirical works for the EU banking sector. Such a study …

policies on the competitive conditions of the main EU banking markets. Design/methodology/approach – After a review of … deregulation and competitition policies in the EU banking industry, the degree of competition in the largest five EU banking …-statistics and Lerner index) approaches. Findings – Results indicate that EU banking markets are becoming progressively more …