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Colombian bank efficiency and the role of market structure

Moreno, Diana Fernández; Estrada, Dairo - Banco de la Republica de Colombia

and the methodological advances of recent years, our purpose is to study the evolution of bank efficiency during the past … new epoch for banking institutions under an efficiency framework. Taking into account the availability of new information … under SFA and Order-m, supporting an increase in efficiency over time. Moreover, relating the latter with market structure …

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structure, the bank's risk taking activities, and the regulatory environment. In particular, the Lerner Index provides evidence that market power decreases efficiency. The capital...

Maghyereh, Aktham I.; Awartani, Basel - In: Journal of Economic Studies 3 (2014), pp. 405-405

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Efficiency and market power in Latin American banking

Williams, Jonathan - In: Journal of Financial Stability 8 (2012) 4, pp. 263-276

I examine the relationship between bank efficiency and market power to test the quiet life hypothesis for a sample of … rejected after various robustness checks. To test if bank restructuring and governance changes affect efficiency and market … concentrated on efficiency rather than market power. The evidence suggests that bank restructuring has promoted competition at the …

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Convergence in institutions and market outcomes: cross-country and time-series evidence from the business environment and enterprise performance surveys in transition economies

Mitra, Pradeep; Muravyev, Alexander; Schaffer, Mark E. - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2009

This paper uses firm-level data from the Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Surveys to study the process of convergence of transition countries with developed market economies. The study focuses on competition and market structure, finance and the structure of lending to firms, and...

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