bank performance. They argue that it is important to include indicators of all the relevant governance effects in the same … likely due to placing nonperforming loans into residual entities, leaving "good" privatized banks."--World Bank web site …

Wang investigate the impact of foreign bank entry on the performance of domestic banks and how this relationship is … observation based on descriptive analysis is that the degree of openness to foreign bank entry varies a great deal, which is not … of liberalization, foreign bank entry has significantly improved domestic bank competitiveness in countries that …

"Under the traditional "competition-fragility" view, more bank competition erodes market power, decreases profit … margins, and results in reduced franchise value that encourages bank risk taking. Under the alternative "competition …-stability" view, more market power in the loan market may result in greater bank risk as the higher interest rates charged to loan …

"The relationships among competition in the financial sector, access of firms to external financing, and associated … economic growth are ambiguous in theory. Moreover, measuring competition in the financial sector can be complex. In this paper … Claessens and Laeven first estimate for 16 countries a measure of banking system competition based on industrial organization …

can affect local market sustainability and there can be path dependency when opening up to cross-border competition … the increased importance of competition policy in financial services provision. This competition policy cannot be … accelerating, competition policy will need to be global, supported by greater cross-border institutional collaboration and using …