, France, Japan, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom. Together, these agreements provide a total of …

other countries, such as France, Germany, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The paper finds competition in …The paper assesses the degree of banking competition and efficiency in Italy?over time as well as compared to that in …. The degree of competition falls within the range of estimates for a set of comparator countries. Greater contestability …

It is widely perceived that competition in the Indian banking sector has increased since the inception of the financial … competitive conditions and earns revenues as if under monopolistic competition …

competition in the banking sector. In spite of significant gains in efficiency made in recent years, operational costs and …

France's recent economic performance has been distinctly positive, supported by policy reforms over a number of years …. Improving long-term economic performance depends crucially on significant reductions in France's high tax burden. Effective …

France’s near–term economic outlook is moderately positive, but clouded by risks from the global environment. The … government’s reformist intentions provide an historic opportunity to place France onto a sustained higher growth path with …

The staff report gives details of some selected issues of France, namely its credit developments, systematic linkages … developments of France's external competitiveness, and also the evolution of its export performance after the 2008 financial crisis …