has been associated with a rise in efficiency. Moreover, on average, larger banks and foreign-owned banks have become more … efficient, while smaller banks have become less efficient in the face of increased competitive pressures. …

Traditional bank competition policy seeks to balance efficiency with incentives to take risk. The main tools are rules … guiding entry/exit and consolidation of banks. This paper seeks to refine this view in light of recent changes to financial … services provision. Modern banking is largely market-based and contestable. Consequently, banks in advanced economies today …

'Afrique Centrale (CEMAC) and the level of bank competition at the regional level. Using a mix of quantitative and qualitative … excess liquidity in the region. Other data also indicate that bank competition within the CEMAC as a region is limited …

sector reforms in 1992. Using annual data on scheduled commercial banks for the period 1996-2004, the paper evaluates the …

in recent years. The banking sector has become concentrated, and profitability of banks is relatively high and growing … services offered by banks. …

dealing with weak banks and other merger and acquisition reviews focus on stability and competition objectives. … the Italian banking sector has intensified in loan and deposit markets in recent years, but banks still operate in a … should act as a powerful force to drive banks to become more competitive and efficient. Competition policy will also continue …

This study reinvestigates the theoretical relationship between competition in banking and banks' exposure to risk of … failure. There is a large existing literature that concludes that when banks are confronted with increased competition, they … they do not detect two fundamental risk-incentive mechanisms that operate in exactly the opposite direction, causing banks …

significant bank consolidation has been taking place in these countries, reflected in a sharp decline in the number of banks, this … increased participation of foreign banks, appears to have prevented a decline in competitive pressures associated with …

restructuring frameworks as well as improving banks’ loan resolution practices so that Greece’s banks are positioned to support …