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Prudential Regulation and Competition in Financial Markets

Ahrend, Rudiger; Arnold, Jens; Murtin, Fabrice - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2009

This paper examines how a range of stability-oriented regulatory policies for banking and insurance are related to selected stability and competition outcomes in these sectors. Based on survey information on financial market regulation, policy indicators for eight areas of prudential banking...

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What types of banks profit most from fees charged? A cross-country examination of bank-specific and country-level determinants

Tennant, David; Sutherland, Richard - In: Journal of Banking & Finance 49 (2014) C, pp. 178-190

The perception that banks are exploiting customers through their fee-charging practices in a bid to maximize profits, has fuelled widespread public interest in identifying the banks that profit most heavily from fees. Using hierarchical cross-country regression analyses, this paper seeks to...

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Financial freedom and bank efficiency: Evidence from the European Union

Chortareas, Georgios E.; Girardone, Claudia; Ventouri, … - In: Journal of Banking & Finance 37 (2013) 4, pp. 1223-1231

This paper investigates the dynamics between the financial freedom counterparts of the economic freedom index drawn from the Heritage Foundation database and bank efficiency levels. We rely on a large sample of commercial banks operating in the 27 European Union member states over the 2000s....

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Efficiency and market power in Latin American banking

Williams, Jonathan - In: Journal of Financial Stability 8 (2012) 4, pp. 263-276

I examine the relationship between bank efficiency and market power to test the quiet life hypothesis for a sample of 419 Latin American commercial banks between 1985 and 2010. A two-stage least squares model with instrumental variables controls for the simultaneous relationship between...

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Bank risk taking, efficiency, and law enforcement: Evidence from Chinese city commercial banks

Zhang, Jianhua; Wang, Peng; Qu, Baozhi - In: China Economic Review 23 (2012) 2, pp. 284-295

We investigate bank risk taking, efficiency and their relation to law enforcement using a unique sample of 133 Chinese city commercial banks across 31 regions for the 1999–2008 period. We find that stronger law enforcement tends to promote greater bank risk taking in the region. Furthermore,...

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Does business regulation matter for banks in the European Union?

Kalyvas, Antonios Nikolaos; Mamatzakis, Emmanuel - In: Journal of International Financial Markets, … 32 (2014) C, pp. 278-324

This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of the impact of business and financial specific regulations on banks in the EU-27 over the 2004–2010 period. We employ a dataset of a wide range of business regulation indices from the “Doing Business” project of the World Bank. Results for the...

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What are the driving forces of bank competition across different income groups of countries?

Mirzaei, Ali; Moore, Tomoe - In: Journal of International Financial Markets, … 32 (2014) C, pp. 38-71

This paper rigorously investigates the determinants of bank competition for 146 countries over the sample period 1999–2011. The results employing both the Lerner index and the Boone indicator, reveal the distinctive characteristics of the competition drivers across different income groups of...

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Market structure, welfare, and banking reform in China

Ho, Chun-Yu - In: Journal of Comparative Economics 40 (2012) 2, pp. 291-313

government intervention. Encouragingly, the price-cost margins of some state commercial banks have fallen over time. …

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Bank competition in Russia: An examination at different levels of aggregation

Anzoategui, Diego; Pería, María Soledad Martínez; … - In: Emerging Markets Review 13 (2012) 1, pp. 42-57

We analyze bank competition in Russia at different levels of aggregation. First, we compute a country-level measure of competition and compare it to that for similar-sized economies. Second, we contrast competition across different groups of banks in Russia. Third, we analyze bank competition...

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Price Competition, Innovation and Profitability: Theory and UK Evidence

Symeonidis, George - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

This Paper examines the effect of price competition on innovation, market structure and profitability in R … counts and profitability over 1952-77. The econometric results suggest that the introduction of restrictive practices …&D-intensive manufacturing industries, while it caused a significant rise in concentration in these industries. In the short run profitability …

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