This paper addresses the relationship between bank competition and efficiency by computing Lerner indices and cost … panel estimator framework to evaluate the sign and direction of causality between them. We observe no increase in bank … efficiency. This suggests that measures to increase bank competition in the Chinese context are not detrimental to efficiency. …

This paper contributes to the debate on the effect of capital requirements on bank effieciency. We study the relation … between capital ratio and bank efficiency for Chinese banks over the period 2004?2009, taking advantage of the profound … size of which depends to an extent on the bank's ownership type. Our results therefore suggest that capital requirements …

bank loans from 43 countries. We test whether the degree information asymmetries affects the link between the presence of …

The aim of this paper is to analyze the effect of corruption in bank lending. Corruption is expected to hamper bank …. Nevertheless the similarities between the consequences for bank lending of law enforcement and corruption are misleading, as they … consider only judiciary corruption. Corruption can also occur in lending and may then be beneficial for bank lending via bribes …

countries. We use a unique dataset of about 400 bank loans from 16 transition countries. Our findings support the view of a …

: Negative Zinssätze lassen Gläubiger für das Privileg der Schuldner zahlen, dass die Kreditnehmer das Geld der Kreditgeber … der ab dem Frühjahr ins Haus stehenden massiven Liquiditätsausweitung im Rahmen der Geldpolitik der EZB sein. Sie werden …