foreign bank ownership on the performance and market power of acquired banks operating in Central and Eastern Europe. This …

standard estimation technique of exchange rate pass-through to inflation is extended to incorporate exchange rate volatility …

In this paper, we use a bank-level panel dataset to investigate the determinants of bank interest margins in the … extensions to assess the extent to which high spreads of banks in the CCA can be related to bank-specific variables, to … risk, bank size, bank diversification, banking sector competition, and macroeconomic policies; but the impact depends on …

over two decades. A reduced-form equation is estimated on the basis of a bank profit maximization model that permits a … decomposition into operational costs, financial taxation, market power, and loan quality. Although the average spread did not change … costs and financial taxation and improving loan quality, will determine whether it can narrow the spread …

costs-mostly because of higher loan impairment charges-which is not followed by a similar increase in prices …

We examine trends in bank competition since the early 2000s. The Lerner index-arguably the most commonly used measure …

The paper focuses on the impact of diversification on bank performance and how consolidation through mergers and … indigenous banks, as compared to foreign competitors in the ECCU. We then simulate bank mergers both within and across ECCU … countries by combining individual banks' balance sheets. The simulation shows that a typical indigenous bank could better …