We study the role of the banking competition and of the banks' efficiency scores in the transmission of monetary policy in the 10 new European Union member-states. The banking competition is measured by H-statistics of Panzar and Rosse, and the efficiency scores are estimated by non-parametric...

Studies that have explored the competitive behaviour of banks frequently arrive at divergent conclusions because they use different measures of competition. This study first discusses these various measures of competition and their divergence from a theoretical perspective and then employs them...

This paper studies, over the 1993-2010 period, the evolution of the market power (Lerner index) of the banks in Thailand as well as the cost efficiency scores on two main banking markets ? lending and investment activities ? and on the whole banking market. Its objective is to measure the impact...

This paper draws on public debt in Brazil, Mexico, and Russia, and develops a bond-by-bond database from 1990 to 2005 that accounts for all available information on buybacks and swaps. We estimate a de facto indicator of average maturity of debt. We analyze the behavior of these three emerging...

M<sc>eslier</sc>-C<sc>rouzille</sc> C., N<sc>ys</sc> E. and S<sc>auviat</sc> A. Contribution of rural banks to regional economic development: evidence from the Philippines, <italic>Regional Studies</italic>. The paper examines the link between banking and economic development in the Philippine regions and it focuses on the role of rural banks...