Analizamos los efectos del liderazgo en la banca cuando existe competencia oligopolica en el mercado de depositos. Estos efectos los evaluamos comparando el desempeno de sistemas bancarios que solo difieren en sus interacciones estrategicas. Especificamente, comparamos los resultados asociados a...

During the 1990S Argentina implemented a profound process of transferring to private capital of public enterprises and strategic areas that historically had remained under the ownership and management of the national State. These privatizations has as target the promotion of economic efficiency...

Banks play a central role in financing and monitoring firms in transition economies. We study how bank competition affects the efficiency of the credit allocation, the monitoring of firms, and the firms' restructuring effort. In our model, banks compete to finance an investment project with...

In this paper, I empirically explore the relation between bank mergers and the rigidity of banks’ deposit rates. I find that merging banks are more likely to change their deposit rates in the first months following a merger. However, in the long term, merging banks change their deposit rates...

In this paper, we aim to study the effect of competition, and not concentration, on cost efficiency for the ece countries during the 1999-2006 period. To do so, we will use two different measures of bank market power: the first one is the Panzar and Ross H-statistic but calculated for each...

This paper studies banks' competitive behavior on the deposit side of the Italian retail banking industry. We use a structural model to estimate demand for deposit services and test several supply models. We find that both the competitive, differentiated product Bertrand and the perfectly...

This paper analyses the dynamics of a banking duopoly game with heterogeneous and homogeneous players (as regards the type of expectations' formation), to investigate the effects of the capital requirements introduced by international accords (Basel-I in 1988 and more recently Basel-II and...

We show that competing firms relax overall competition by lowering future barriers to entry.We illustrate our findings in a two-period model with adverse selection where banks strategically commit to disclose borrower information.By doing this, they invite rivals to enter their market.Disclosure...

The Riegle-Neal Act in the US and the Economic and Monetary Union in Europe are recent initiatives to stimulate financial integration.These initiatives allow new entrants to "poach" the incumbents' clients by offering them attractive loan offers.We show that these deregulations may be...

This paper studies, over the 1993-2010 period, the evolution of the market power (Lerner index) of the banks in Thailand as well as the cost efficiency scores on two main banking markets ? lending and investment activities ? and on the whole banking market. Its objective is to measure the impact...