has any role in the economic development of Bangladesh, using district-level data to estimate a spatial model. We find … theoretical literature is indeed correct, that financial development facilitates growth, but that Bangladesh exhibits a pattern …

This paper analyses the effects of concentration on profitability in the US banking sector from 1994-2005, using bank … concentration and profitability even when the largest banks are excluded from the sample, suggesting that the relationship between … concentration and profitability may act in a generalised structural way. In addition to very large banks, large banks and small …

'Afrique Centrale (CEMAC) and the level of bank competition at the regional level. Using a mix of quantitative and qualitative … excess liquidity in the region. Other data also indicate that bank competition within the CEMAC as a region is limited …

We study how banking competition may affect the stability of banking systems. We develop our study by expanding the … foreign ownership are associated to bank-based financial systems and financial underdevelopment. They also show that banking … credit and bank-based financial systems enhance banking fragility. Banking concentration is not a significant determinant …