. However, even if there is a commonly accepted view in favor of enhanced bank competition during the last decade, no study has … EU countries. We provide evidence of a general improvement in bank competition in the EU, even if cross …-country differences are observed in the pattern of the evolution of bank competition. We check whether convergence in bank competition has …

This paper aims at investigating the effects of concentration on competition and cost efficiency of the French audit … market. Competition is measured with the Rosse-Panzar model, while cost efficiency is estimated with stochastic frontier … competition appears to be monopolistic competition. Dynamic analysis shows a reduction in competition, and a decrease in cost …

The aim of this paper is to analyze the effect of corruption in bank lending. Corruption is expected to hamper bank …. Nevertheless the similarities between the consequences for bank lending of law enforcement and corruption are misleading, as they … consider only judiciary corruption. Corruption can also occur in lending and may then be beneficial for bank lending via bribes …

countries. We use a unique dataset of about 400 bank loans from 16 transition countries. Our findings support the view of a …

the reasons vary according to the type of collateral. We use a unique dataset of bank loans granted to French distressed … of the bank to secure a loan, as no type of collateral helps to solve adverse selection and moral hazard problems. The …

bank loans from 43 countries. We test whether the degree information asymmetries affects the link between the presence of …

bank participation, suggesting that domestic banks are less cautious in their risk management. …

banking competition and efficiency, and to implement binding banking regulation on capital requirement to promote the …

The aim of this study is to investigate the impact of corruption on bank lending in Russia. This issue is of major … regional measures of corruption and bank-level data to perform this investigation. Our main estimations show that corruption … hampers bank lending in Russia. We investigate whether this negative role of corruption is influenced by the degree of bank …