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 …

information asymmetries in the banking sector, it also may have contributed to the contraction in bank lending observed during …

We examine how bank competition in the run-up to the 2007-2009 crisis affects banks' systemic risk during the crisis …. We then investigate whether this effect is influenced by two key bank characteristics: securitization and bank capital …. Using a sample of the largest listed banks from 15 countries, we find that greater market power at the bank level and higher …

). We use detailed individual-level survey data, combined with key country-level indicators of bank competition and …, and bank loans). We find that more competition tends to increase the probability of access to these financial products. On …In this paper we study how competition and financial soundness affect financial inclusion in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA …

provide guidance to policymakers regarding bank privatization …This paper provides an overview of the possible linkages between state-owned banks, privatization, and banking sector …

We examine trends in bank competition since the early 2000s. The Lerner index-arguably the most commonly used measure … frequently used indicators of banking sector competition seem much more muted. We show that the significant drop in policy rates …