Markets Programme (SMP). Using detailed security holdings data at the bank level, we show that banks exposed to this …

the effect of competition on realised bank risk (i.e. more intense competition and greater use of securitisation is … impact of competition on realised risk. It follows that cooperation between supervisory and competition authorities is …

This study investigates if the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) distorted price competition in U.S. banking …

approach is able to measure competition of bank market segments, such as the loan market, whereas many well - known measures of …This paper is the first that applies a new measure of competition, the Boone indicator, to the banking industry. This … competition can consider the entire banking market only. A caveat of the Boone - indicator may be that it assumes that banks …

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 …

A growing body of literature indicates that competition increases bank soundness. Applying an industrial organization … bank soundness. We find evidence that competition robustly increases bank soundness, via the efficiency channel. … role in the transmission from competition to soundness. We use a two-pronged approach. First, we employ Granger causality …

this policy through banks. This paper examines the role of bank liquidity, capitalization and market power as internal … monetary policy change on bank performance is also considered. The empirical analysis, using large panel datasets for the … rates by disaggregating down to the individual bank level. This is achieved by the use of a Local GMM technique that also …

, comprehensive dataset of over one million loans by savings banks in Germany. We find that loans of retail customers, who have a … relationship with their savings bank prior to applying for a loan, default significantly less than customers with no prior …

estimated while controlling for the macroeconomic environment. An increase in bank' balance sheet risk is shown to increase the …