This technical note analyzes the competition in the banking sector in Denmark. It reveals that Denmark has a fairly … competitive and efficient banking sector. Measured by various indicators, efficiency of banking intermediation has been improving … in recent years. The banking sector has become concentrated, and profitability of banks is relatively high and growing …

The paper assesses the degree of banking competition and efficiency in Italy?over time as well as compared to that in … the Italian banking sector has intensified in loan and deposit markets in recent years, but banks still operate in a … dealing with weak banks and other merger and acquisition reviews focus on stability and competition objectives. …

This study reinvestigates the theoretical relationship between competition in banking and banks' exposure to risk of …-competitive consolidation as a response to banking instability. We then show that existing theoretical analyses of this topic are fragile, since … essential ingredients of models of bank competition. …

Banking Supervision. The U.S. financial system is large and highly diversified. At the end-2007, total U.S. financial assets …

toward meeting medium-term objectives. The banking system stabilized, the current account adjusted quickly, social arrears …

concentrated banking systems. We outline research directions aimed at explaining why bank consolidation and conglomeration do not …This paper documents global trends in bank activity, consolidation, internationalization, and financial firm … conglomeration, and explores the extent to which financial firm risk and systemic risk potential in banking are related to …

This paper reviews the nature of central bank involvement in 26 episodes of financial disturbance and crises in Latin … America from the mid-1990s onwards. It finds that, except in a handful of cases, large amounts of central bank money were used … to cope with large and small crises alike. Pouring central bank money into the financial system generally derailed …

competitive conduct of financial institutions and banking system fragility. Using the Panzar and Rosse H-Statistic as a measure … for competition in 38 countries during 1980-2003, we present evidence that more competitive banking systems are less prone …