This paper is the first that applies a new measure of competition, the Boone indicator, to the banking industry. This … approach is able to measure competition of bank market segments, such as the loan market, whereas many well-known measures of … competition can consider the entire banking market only. A caveat of the Boone-indicator may be that it assumes that banks …

enhance competition in the European banking sector will tend to render the monetary policy transmission mechanism more …This paper analyses the impact of loan market competition on the interest rates applied by euro area banks to loans and … deposits during the 1994-2004 period, using a novel measure of competition called the Boone indicator. We find evidence that …

implications, as they suggest that measures to enhance competition in the European banking sector will tend to render the monetary …Incluye bibliografía ; This paper analyses the impact of loan market competition on the interest rates applied by euro … area banks to loans and deposits during the 1994-2004 period, using a novel measure of competition called the Boone …