loan market. We find that banks are more likely to act as lead arrangers, charge higher interest rate spreads and face less …

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

be conditioned by the degree of market competition. We first identify conditions under which changes in marginal costs … competition setting. We then exploit changes in monetary policy to examine whether the pass-through of borrowing costs is affected … by market structure. First, we use as an experiment the announcement of the ECB Outright Monetary Transactions (OMT …

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

their privately observed soft information is positive or negative. Competition affects the investment in learning the …