We investigate asset returns around banking crises in 44 advanced and emerging economies from 1960 to 2018. In contrast … to the view that buying assets during banking crises is a profitable long-run strategy, we find returns of equity and … other asset classes generally underperform after banking crises. While prices are depressed during crises and partially …

tests to establish the link between competition and measures of profit efficiency in banking, and find that competition …

and trends in the euro area banking sector in terms of the degree of homogeneity of countries. We find that in the period … 1998-2004 the banking sectors in the euro area countries seem to have become somewhat more homogeneous, although the …

seem to matter a great deal. -- Relationship banking ; bank organization ; bank origin ; loan announcement return …

market overlap, the decline is much smaller when there is a significant increase in local banking market concentration …

This paper is the first that applies a new measure of competition, the Boone indicator, to the banking industry. This … competition can consider the entire banking market only. A caveat of the Boone-indicator may be that it assumes that banks …

to be associated with a build-up of foreign positions by the banking sector, but this adverse effect on the banking …