This paper studies the relationship between competition measures at the bank level and the price of credit for non …-financial firms in Mexico during 2009-2016. Two indicators of competition are constructed: the Lerner indicator and the Boone …

This paper examines the relationship between political competition and financial development across a global sample of … of Acemoglu and Robinson (2006) and Besley et al. (2010), we explore whether political competition impacts financial … efficiency of the financial sector, we find a Ushaped relationship between political competition and financial development in the …

Most often, the competition authorities approve combinations based on the tradeoff between the expected efficiency …