How do banks react to increased interbank competition?Recent banking theory offers conflicting predictions about the … impact of competition on bank orientation í L H WKH choice of relationship based versus transactional banking í DQG EDQN … LQGXVWU\ specialization.We empirically investigate the impact of interbank competition on bank branch orientation and …

Abstract: This paper documents large cross-country variation in the relationship between bank competition and bank … in competition will have a larger impact on banks’ fragility in countries with stricter activity restrictions, lower …

This paper examines the relationship between competition, innovation and productivity for the Netherlands. We use … industry level. We find strong evidence for a positive impact of competition on Total Factor Productivity (TFP) at the industry … level. Competition directly increases TFP by reducing X-ineficiencies and removing inefficient forms from markets, but also …

.We investigate theoretically and empirically how bank organization shapes banking competition.Our theoretical model illustrates how a …