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Denmark; Financial Sector Assessment Program-Technical Note-Competition in the Banking Sector

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2007

This technical note analyzes the competition in the banking sector in Denmark. It reveals that Denmark has a fairly …

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Northern Star; Canada's Path to Economic Prosperity

Klyuev, Vladimir; Mühleisen, Martin; Bayoumi, Tamim - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2007

Robust GDP growth, declining unemployment, low and stable inflation, and a string of fiscal and current account surpluses -- it's a record to be envied. These outcomes in Canada owe much to sound macroeconomic policies, as well as to a favorable external environment. This book focuses on these...

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Pricing Debit Card Payment Services; An IO Approach

Tieman, Alexander F.; Bolt, Wilko - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2003

This paper presents a theoretical framework for analyzing pricing structures in debit card schemes featuring cardholders, retailers, their respective banks, and a network routing switch. The network routing switch controls the electronic debit card network and is jointly owned by the banks. In...

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Consolidation and Market Structure in Emerging Market Banking Systems

Gelos, Gaston; Roldos, Jorge - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2002

This paper examines the evolution of market structure in emerging market banking systems during the 1990s. While significant bank consolidation has been taking place in these countries, reflected in a sharp decline in the number of banks, this process has not systematically been associated with...

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Assessing Bank Competition within the East African Community

Sanya, Sarah; Gaertner, Matthew - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2012

Community (EAC) countries2. The results show that the degree of competition is low due to a combination of structural and socio …

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Competition in Indian Banking

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2005

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. …

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Bank Efficiency and Competition in Low-Income Countries; The Case of Uganda

Hauner, David; Peiris, Shanaka J. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2005

far-reaching banking sector reforms undertaken in Uganda to improve competition and efficiency. Using models that have … been previously used only in industrial countries, we find that the level of competition has increased significantly and …

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Bank Competition and Firm Creation

Dell'Ariccia, Giovanni - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2001

This paper investigates the empirical relationship between competition in the financial sector and the creation of … firms in the non-financial sector. It finds that bank competition has an overall positive effect on firm creation. However …, consistent with theories of banking arguing that competition may reduce the availability of credit to informationally opaque …

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Competition and Efficiency in Banking; Behavioral Evidence From Ghana

Mathisen, Johan; Buchs, Thierry D. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2005

This paper assesses the degree of bank competition and discusses efficiency with regard to banks' financial …

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Italy; Assessing Competition and Efficiency in the Banking System

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2007

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

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