The aim of this paper is to assess the level of competition prevailing in the Spanish banking system. The current … banks. In both settings, a noteworthy increase in the degree of competition is identified at the turn of the eighties, when … hypothesis which states that concentration impairs competition. …

. Many empirical studies suggest that financial reform promoted bank competition in most mature and emerging economies …. However, some earlier studies that adopted conventional approaches to measure competition concluded that bank competition in … Panzar- Rosse H-statistic fail to measure competition in Chinese loan markets properly due to the system of interest rate …

This paper is the first that applies a new measure of competition, the Boone indicator, to the banking industry. This … approach is able to measure competition of bank market segments, such as the loan market, whereas many well-known measures of … competition can consider the entire banking market only. A caveat of the Boone-indicator may be that it assumes that banks …

models spatial price competition between bank branches jointly with banks’ decisions on the opening or closing of branches … distance between bank branches and bank customers; and iii) shows how the intensity of market competition may be unaffected …

-taking. As market power is the primary source of franchise value, reduced competition in banking markets has been seen as …

intensive use of this employment type. Our results also show that increases in competition lead to productivity improvements … of competition in the services sector may be preventing firms to increase specialization while outsourcing non …

market competition with search costs. …

This paper analyses the impact of loan market competition on the interest rates applied by euro area banks to loans and … deposits during the 1994-2004 period, using a novel measure of competition called the Boone indicator. We find evidence that … stronger competition implies significantly lower spreads between bank and market interest rates for most loan market products …