Markets Programme (SMP). Using detailed security holdings data at the bank level, we show that banks exposed to this …

A growing body of literature indicates that competition increases bank soundness. Applying an industrial organization … bank soundness. We find evidence that competition robustly increases bank soundness, via the efficiency channel … role in the transmission from competition to soundness. We use a twopronged approach. First, we employ Granger causality …

approach is able to measure competition of bank market segments, such as the loan market, whereas many well-known measures of … ignores differences in bank product quality and design, as well as the attractiveness of innovations. We measure competition …This paper is the first that applies a new measure of competition, the Boone indicator, to the banking industry. This …

and measures competition vis-à-vis other market participants. We apply this extended Boone indicator to individual bank …This paper extends Boone (2008) by introducing a competition measure at the individual firm level rather than for an …-level competition in the loan market in the four largest euro area countries and Austria. The MRP distribution is skewed to the left and …

We model the impact of bank mergers on loan competition, banks' reserve holdings and aggregate liquidity. Banks compete … in liquidity risk and expected liquidity needs for each bank and for the banking system. Large mergers tend to increase … expected aggregate liquidity needs, and thus the liquidity provision by the central bank. Comparative statics suggest that a …