deepening credit markets dominates for the large majority of states of nature. The paper also uses a detailed bank-level dataset …

-7% higher without divestitures. Up to 30% savings could have been obtained in Latin America by emulating the pro-competition …

The latest global financial and economic crisis reignited the debate on the costs and benefits of foreign bank presence … banks presence in Macedonia supports the competition in the banking system in the long run, visible through the narrowing of … other fundamental factors, rather than the actual dynamics of foreign bank presence. The availability of bank funding is one …

given by testing a monopolistic competition model of bank branching behaviour on individual bank data at county level …This paper analyses the relation between competition and concentration in the banking sector. The empirical answer is … among incumbent banks on competition and discuss when, depending on the pre-merger structure of the market and geographic …