of domestic banks by foreign investors has lowered rates of firm creation, decreased the average size of entrants, and … spurred firm creation and exit. We modify the view in earlier studies that informational opacity equates with firm size …

during the crisis of 2008–2009, signifying an impairment of credit markets. We also find contractionary shocks unrelated to …

of domestic banks by foreign investors has lowered rates of firm creation, decreased the average size of entrants, and … spurred firm creation and exit. We modify the view in earlier studies that informational opacity equates with firm size …

during the crisis of 2008–2009, signifying an impairment of credit markets. We also find contractionary shocks unrelated to …

The Central European banking industry is dominated by foreign-owned banks. During the recent crisis, for the first time … comprehensive data set, we find that the recent crisis did not change the sensitivity of deposit growth rates to accounting risk …

The Central European banking industry is dominated by foreign-owned banks. During the recent crisis, for the first time … comprehensive data set, we find that the recent crisis did not change the sensitivity of deposit growth rates to accounting risk …

This paper addresses the relationship between bank competition and efficiency by computing Lerner indices and cost … efficiency scores for a sample of Chinese banks over the period 2002-2011. Granger-causality tests are performed in a dynamic GMM … competition over the period, even as cost efficiency improves. In a departure from the empirical literature showing that …