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Theory makes ambiguous predictions about the relationship between market structure and competitiveness of the banking system and banking sector stability. Empirical studies focusing on individual countries provide similarly ambiguous results, while cross-country studies point mostly to a...
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Using a unique bank-level data set on the Ugandan banking system during 1999-2005, the authors explore the factors … not find a robust and economically significant relationship between privatization, foreign bank entry, market structure …, and banking efficiency. Similarly, macroeconomic variables can explain little of the over-time variation in bank spreads …
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--is part of a larger effort in the group to study the effects of bank privatization in developing countries"--World Bank web …
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July 1999 - This new database of indicators of financial development and structure across countries and over time unites a range of indicators that measure the size, activity, and efficiency of financial intermediaries and markets. Beck, Demirgüç-Kunt, and Levine introduce a new database of...
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