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Banking Unconditionally : The Political Economy of Chinese Finance in Latin America
Kaplan, Stephen B. - 2016
Globalization scholars have long-debated to what extent economic integration, and specifically, mobile private capital constrains national policymaking. With Western capital reeling from the 2008 financial crisis, state-owned capital made inroads globally. China, as the world's largest saver,...
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Competitive Environment in Banking Industry : Evidence from an Emerging Economy
Rafay, Abdul - 2019
). The results depict monopolistic competition and significant role of bank size in determining the level of competition in …
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Measuring Competition in the UK Deposit-Taking Sector
de-Ramon, Sebastian - 2016
We use a new regulatory dataset to measure the intensity competition in the UK deposit-taking sector. The novelty of this study is two-fold. First, the dataset allows us to explore trends in competition intensity over an extended, 24-year period from 1989 to 2013 using data for UK-regulated...
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Bank competition and regional integration : evidence from ASEAN nations
Ventouri, Alexia - In: Review of development finance 8 (2018) 2, pp. 127-140
This study provides a characterization of the Association of the South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) banking system's competition under the new environment that the implementation of the Financial Integration Framework (AFIF) implies. We focus on the largest banking markets in the region,...
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Assessing Bank Competition within the East African Community
Gaertner, Matthew - 2012
This paper is an empirical analysis of competitiveness in the banking system of four out of the five East African Community (EAC) countries2. The results show that the degree of competition is low due to a combination of structural and socio-economic factors. By way of preview, the analysis...
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Can Fintech foster competition in the banking system in Latin America and the Caribbean?
Bejar, Pablo; Ishi, Kotaro; Komatsuzaki, Takuji; … - In: Latin American journal of central banking : LAJCB 3 (2022) 2, pp. 1-22
This paper revisits the competitive environment of the banking system in Latin America and the Caribbean and investigates the early impact of fintech development in the region thus far. Against the backdrop of high net interest margins (NIMs) and limited financial depth in the region, panel...
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Stock Market Co-Movement in Latin America
de Medeiros, Otavio Ribeiro - 2012
This paper investigates co-movement in eight Latin-American stock markets (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, and Venezuela) using common factor analysis. The common factors are obtained using principal component analysis (PCA) and therefore account for the maximum...
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Market Structure, Growth and Competition in the Supermarket Sector in Latin America
Delgado, Juan - 2015
Supermarkets play a limited but increasingly important role in Latin-America groceries retail markets. Traditional grocery retailers still play a substantial role in most Latin American countries and the penetration of supermarkets is still behind the developed countries. Paradoxically, within...
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Bank Risk Determinants in Latin America
Baselga-Pascual, Laura - 2020
paper examines the main bank risk determinants in Latin America. The period analysed covers the timespan from 1999 to 2013 …-driven comparable methodology to classify and select commercial banks from the sample. We study bank risk proxied by the Z-score. In the … analysis, we apply bank specific, macroeconomic and regulatory variables. We use the system-GMM estimator as our main empirical …
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The Rise of Anti-Cartel Enforcement in Africa, Asia, and Latin America
Connor, John M. - 2016
This paper examines the rise of cartel enforcement in Europe, North America, and the Rest of the World (ROW) over the past 25 years in greater detail and with more indicators than previous publications. I find that in the past decade the ROW antitrust authorities have made extraordinarily rapid...
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