Showing 1 - 4 of 4
identified late, solutions are much more costly. Until recently, Europe has seen only a small number of outright bank failures … of banking distress in Europe. We identify a set of indicators and thresholds that can help to distinguish sou …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012677700
This paper provides the first empirical analysis of the cross-country relationship between a direct measure of 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005825680
We examine the interest rate elasticity of housing prices, advancingthe empirical literature in two directions. First, we take a commonly used cross-country panel dataset and evaluate the housing price equation using a consistent estimator in the presence of endogenous explanatory variables and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005604881
We use data for more than 2,600 European banks to test whether increased competition causes banks to hold higher capital ratios. Employing panel data techniques, and distinguishing between the competitive conduct of small and large banks, we show that banks tend to hold higher capital ratios...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005605326