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This paper revisits the competitive environment of the banking system in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) and … approaches and prudential considerations in fostering financial innovation and banking sector competition …
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This paper is an empirical analysis of competitiveness in the banking system of four out of the five East African …-economic factors. By way of preview, the analysis ranks the countries in terms of banking sector competitiveness in the following order …
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We study versions of a general equilibrium banking model with moral hazard under either constant or increasing returns …
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This paper investigates the degree of bank competition in the euro area, the U.S. and U.K. before and after the recent financial crisis, and revisits the issue whether the introduction of EMU and the euro have had any impact on bank competition. The results suggest that the level of bank...
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when controlling for the degree of concentration in banking systems, inter-industry competition, characteristics of the …
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The paper analyzes the relationship between bank competition and stability, with a specific focus on the Middle East and North Africa. Price competition has a positive effect on bank liquidity, as it induces self-discipline incentives on banks for the choice of bank funding sources and for the...
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Bank competition can induce excessive risk taking due to risk shifting. This paper tests this hypothesis using micro-level U.S. mortgage data by exploiting the exogenous variation in local house price volatility. The paper finds that, in response to high expected house price volatility, banks in...
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Given their pegged exchange rate regimes, Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries usually adjust their policy rates to match shifting U.S. monetary policy. This raises the important question of how changes in U.S. monetary policy affect banks in the GCC. We use bank-level panel data, exploiting...
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