This paper addresses the relationship between bank competition and efficiency by computing Lerner indices and cost … competition over the period, even as cost efficiency improves. In a departure from the empirical literature showing that … competition negatively Granger-causes cost efficiency for Western banks, we find no significant relation between competition and …

There has been a notable debate in the banking literature on the impact of bank competition on financial stability …. While the dominant view sees a detrimental impact of competition on the stability of banks, this view has recently been … providing the first empirical investigation of the role of bank competition on the occurrence of bank failures. We analyze this …

The aim of this paper is to analyze bank competition in Russia by measuring the market power of Russian banks and its … determinants over the period 2001-2007 with the Lerner index. Earlier studies on bank competition have focused on developed … countries whereas this paper contributes to the analysis of bank competition in emerging markets. We find that bank competition …