competition are quite limited. We propose and implement a frontierbased method to assess relative competition in bank …, it is important to maintain competition among payment service providers but data available to gauge the degree of …

approach is able to measure competition of bank market segments, such as the loan market, whereas many well-known measures of … ignores differences in bank product quality and design, as well as the attractiveness of innovations. We measure competition …This paper is the first that applies a new measure of competition, the Boone indicator, to the banking industry. This …

This paper investigates the dynamics of the pass-through between market interest rates and bank interest rates in the … deposits and savings deposits. Bank soundness, credit risk and interest rate risk are found to exert a significant influence on … monetary policy was up (down). Overall, we find that competition among banks and competition from financial markets result in a …

In this paper we explore the link between the intensity of product market competition and inflation rates across EU … over time and as alternative proxies of competition we use the level of mark-up, profit margin, the profit rate and a … survey based “intensity of competition” variable. Results for both aggregate and sectoral panels show that the extent of …

foreign bank lending on firm growth and financing. Foreign lending stimulates growth in firm sales, assets, and leverage, but …-1993 – arguably the most connected businesses – benefit least from foreign bank entry. This finding suggests that foreign banks can …

stronger competition implies significantly lower spreads between bank and market interest rates for most loan market products … where competitive pressures are stronger. Further, where loan market competition is stronger, we observe larger bank spreads …This paper analyses the impact of loan market competition on the interest rates applied by euro area banks to loans and …

We estimate the macroeconomic benefits and international spillovers of an increase in competition using a general …-equilibrium simulation model with nominal rigidities and monopolistic competition in product and labor markets. We draw three conclusions … after calibrating the model to the euro area against the rest of the industrial world. First, greater competition produces …