proxy the quality of the different services embedded in a bank deposit. …

. 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 … specifications and estimation methods. All in all, our analysis suggests that bank lending markets in China have been more …

during the period 2004-2010. The proposed framework allows to estimate with bank level data both the standard credit risk …

Cross-border bank flows are experiencing a protracted contraction after the global financial crisis, in stark contrast …, it was defined by large cross-border bank flows. The current trend could imply a growing relevance of banks …

models spatial price competition between bank branches jointly with banks’ decisions on the opening or closing of branches …, the paper i) uses a new measure of bank productivity; ii) provides a productivity differences-based explanation of the … distance between bank branches and bank customers; and iii) shows how the intensity of market competition may be unaffected …