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

significant bank consolidation has been taking place in these countries, reflected in a sharp decline in the number of banks, this …

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

firms in the non-financial sector. It finds that bank competition has an overall positive effect on firm creation. However … firms, it also finds that asymmetric information limits the overall positive effect of bank competition on firm creation …. Indeed, bank competition is less favorable to the emergence of new firms in industrial sectors where informational …

As in other sectors, competition in finance matters for allocative, productive and dynamic efficiency. Theory suggests …, however, that unfettered competition is not first best given the special features of finance. I review these analytics and … describe how to assess the degree of competition in markets for financial services. Existing research shows that the degree of …

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

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 …

Traditional bank competition policy seeks to balance efficiency with incentives to take risk. The main tools are rules … argue that bank competition policy should be reoriented to deal with the too-big-to-fail (TBTF) problem. It should also … seek to affect the degree of competition by focusing on market structure (i.e. concentration) may have limited effect. We …

This paper investigates the degree of bank competition in the euro area, the U.S. and U.K. before and after the recent … financial crisis, and revisits the issue whether the introduction of EMU and the euro have had any impact on bank competition …. The results suggest that the level of bank competition converged across euro area countries in the wake of the EMU. The …

smaller bank size. Overall, we find that concentrated market structures and lack of competition in LICs banking systems and … at the bank level, we find that within LICs a substantial part of the variation in interest margins can be explained by … bank-specific factors: margins tend to increase with higher riskiness of credit portfolio, lower bank capitalization, and …