Policy efforts to revitalise entrepreneurship and investment in Spain are key to generating growth and new jobs. The … government has a substantial reform program to make it easier to do business in Spain, which should in some cases be deepened … procedures, internationalisation needs to be fostered, and competition strengthened. In addition, the negative impact of the …

Policy efforts to revitalise entrepreneurship and investment in Spain are key to generating growth and new jobs. The … government has a substantial reform program to make it easier to do business in Spain, which should in some cases be deepened … procedures, internationalisation needs to be fostered, and competition strengthened. In addition, the negative impact of the …

This paper addresses the relationship between bank competition and efficiency by computing Lerner indices and cost … efficiency. This suggests that measures to increase bank competition in the Chinese context are not detrimental to efficiency. … panel estimator framework to evaluate the sign and direction of causality between them. We observe no increase in bank …

This paper examines the extent of banking competition in African subregional markets. A dynamic version of the Panzar …–Rosse model is adopted beside the static model to assess the overall extent of banking competition in each subregional banking …

necessarily face fierce competition. Because the industry is highly fragmented, strict separation of the three existing banking … pillars may impede competition, with negative effects on financial stability. We assess the competitive stances of 1 …,888 universal banks from 2001 to 2009 by using the Panzar–Rosse revenue test. We find evidence that measuring competition at an …

locations of large-bank branches have demographics typically associated with greater financial sophistication, large-bank …