A growing body of literature indicates that competition increases bank soundness. Applying an industrial organization … indeed increases bank efficiency. Second, building on these results, we examine the relation between the Boone indicator … bank soundness. We find evidence that competition robustly increases bank soundness, via the efficiency channel …

this policy through banks. This paper examines the role of bank liquidity, capitalization and market power as internal … monetary policy change on bank performance is also considered. The empirical analysis, using large panel datasets for the … rates by disaggregating down to the individual bank level. This is achieved by the use of a Local GMM technique that also …

We construct a novel measure of bank performance, investigate its determinants, and show that it affects bank … inefficiencies, rather than monetary or regulatory measures, were the main driver of bank underperformance. We also show that higher …

-merger financial performance. We find that, on average, bank mergers in the European Union resulted in improved return on capital. By …

asymmetries within the bank combined with fixed wages. Two kinds of inefficiencies arise in equilibrium: the credit officer either … bank accepts the information asymmetries, is called the centralized structure. Under decentralized structure the bank … finance more small firms, but incur higher costs than centralized ones. Small banks are interpreted as a bank with relatively …

; selection ; loan rates ; bank competition ; firm leverage …

anonymity but cannot be used for more efficient online transactions. By contrast, bank deposits can be used online but do not …